The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic

[Read by Connor Kelly-Eiding and Alana Kerr]Inspired by true events, this is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic -- a seamless blend of fact and fiction that explores the tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivors and their descendants. -- Ireland, 1912. Seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy sets sail on RMS Titanic hoping to find a better life in America, though her heart remains in Ireland with the sweetheart she left behind. When disaster strikes, Maggie is one of the few passengers in steerage who survives. Waking up in a New York hospital, she vows never to speak of the terror of that terrible night again. -- Chicago, 1982. Adrift after the death of her father, Grace Butler doesn't know what comes next. When her Great Nana Maggie shares the painful secret she harbored for almost a lifetime, the revelation gives Grace new direction -- and leads her and Maggie to reunions with those they thought lost long ago.