Charlotte Rogan - The Lifeboat

The New York Times“Charlotte Rogan’s impressive, harrowing first novel...” Rogan writes viscerally about the desperate condition of the castaway. But it’s her portrait of Grace, who is by turns astute, conniving, comic and affecting, that drives the book...

Publishers Weekly“A complex and engrossing psychological drama...” Rogan interweaves the trial with a harrowing day-by-day story of Grace’s time aboard the lifeboat, and circles around society’s ideas about what it means to be human...

The Independent“Rogan deploys her story with a quiet assurance...” The Lifeboat is a study of knowledge and experience, memory and truth-telling, inventing and forgetting, focused and intensified by confinement in the lifeboat of the title...

The Telegraph“The protagonist is often hard to believe, implausible and unreliable...” However pungent the haze of paranoia – as survivors on the lifeboat wonder who will be next to die – the lack of definition to the protagonist, Grace, lowers the stakes attached to the ever-present jeopardy...

Guardian“An unflinching yet nuanced examination of the will to survive...” A dark, brutal novel but it is also vividly exciting, beautifully paced and surprisingly funny; Rogan has found a voice that is both fresh and mysterious...