As the days of the voyage pass, these four lives collide in a struggle for survival as the Lusitania meets its deadly fate. While she begins as a secretary, it isnt long before her skills in codes and cyphers are called on, and she learns a devastating truth and the true cost of war. As the days of the voyage pass, these four lives collide in a struggle for survival as the Lusitania meets its deadly fate. In London, Isabel Nelson, a young woman grateful to have escaped her blemished reputation in Oxford, has found employment at the British Admiralty in the mysterious Room 40. Undaunted, Sydney and Brooke board the Lusitania for the seven-day voyage with Edward, not knowing that disaster lies ahead. As international tempers flare, the German embassy releases a warning that any ships making the Atlantic crossing are at risk.

Tales of human suffering, sacrifice and heroism can’t fail to capture the imagination, binding us to another time, another place. History’s great tragedies have always tugged at our emotions. Sydney has other adventures in mind she is drawn to the burgeoning suffragette movement, which is a constant source of embarrassment to her proper sister. In Kim Izzo’s new novel, Seven Days in May, she traces her great-grandfather’s journey aboard the RMS Lusitania ‘s final voyage in 1915. Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey, the future Lord Northbrook, in the wedding of the social calendar. As the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England. For readers of Kate Williams, Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson, a captivating novel of love and resilience during the Great War, inspired by the authors family history.

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