I found reading about the trials that happened afterwards to be incredibly interesting. It’s quite different than most stories about the Titanic. The majority of the story is about after the sinking.

One thing that kind of shocked me is that the Titanic sinks relatively early in this novel. This book went slow for me, I didn’t feel compelled to devour it. My mom and I read this book at the same time and she actually finished it first, which is really saying something for me. This is another book that I picked up after visiting the Titanic museum in Pidgeon Forge. Kate Alcott writes about some of the real people who were aboard the Titanic, bringing together fact and fiction. The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott shines a whole new lighkt on the sinking of the Titanic.

Set against a historical tragedy but told from a completely fresh angle, The Dressmaker is an atmospheric delight filled with all the period’s glitz and glamour, all the raw feelings of a national tragedy and all the contradictory emotions of young love. On dry land, rumors about the survivors begin to circulate, and Lady Duff Gordon quickly becomes the subject of media scorn and later, the hearings on the Titanic. Others-including the gallant Midwestern tycoon-are not so lucky. Tess’s sailor also manages to survive unharmed, witness to Lady Duff Gordon’s questionable actions during the tragedy. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes.Īmidst the chaos and desperate urging of two very different suitors, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor and the other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid on the Titanic’s doomed voyage.

Summary: Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy.