![]() This was certainly not the book I was expecting it to be. Of course not only does Benji report on the events in the lifeboat but talks about his possible role in the ship’s demise. When LeFleur finds the notebook he’s intrigued by Benji’s story. The possibilities of another person! Is there any anticiipation on this Earth quite like that one? Is there anything lonelier than being without it? p 36Īnd then there’s police chief inspector Jarty LeFleur who remains in mourning after the death of his child and whose marriage is floundering as both he and his wife struggle with their grief. The curiously of attraction, the stolen glances…. ![]() I remember that hour as if I could walk inside it and touch its edges. ![]() We also learn a little about Benji’s backstory and his relationship with Annabelle as he reminisces in his writing. It’s written in second person as he’s writing in a notebook to a woman called Annabelle. And of those in the lifeboat, half were guests of the mega-wealthy owner, Jason Lambert (including Lambert himself) and the others were hired help.ĭetail about those on board and some information about the voyage itself is interspersed through the book via news stories and interviews before and after the sinking of the boat.īenji shares details of the survivors and everything we learn (about what happens in the lifeboat) we see through his eyes and is shaped by his experiences. It falls to the island’s chief inspector, Jarty LeFleur, a man battling his own demons, to solve the mystery of what really happened.īenji was a crew member aboard the luxury ship, Galaxy. The story is narrated by Benji, one of the passengers, who recounts the events in a notebook that is later discovered-a year later-when the empty life raft washes up on the island of Montserrat. “Thank the Lord we found you,” a passenger says. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. Genres: General Fiction, Literary FictionĪdrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, nine people struggle for survival at sea. And I certainly enjoyed this book, however it wasn’t really the question posed by the book, but Albom’s writing that had me enchanted. But something about his latest release had me intrigued.Īs a lover of mysteries, thrillers and crime fiction, I knew it wasn’t going to be ‘that’ kind of book, but there was mention of a mystery at the heart of this novel which I thought might appeal. I’ve not even seen the movie based on his popular book, Tuesdays with Morrie. Before The Stranger in the Lifeboat I’d not read anything by Mitch Albom.
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