Super Short Summary

Charlotte Rogan’s The Lifeboat follows Grace Winters, a young woman stranded on a lifeboat with thirty-eight other passengers after a shipwreck, as they grapple with moral dilemmas and fight for survival. The narrative alternates between the harrowing events on the lifeboat and Grace’s subsequent trial for murder, raising questions about her innocence and the nature of justice during desperate times. The plot involves death, starvation, and instances of violence.