The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott is historical fiction about the sinking of the Titanic and what happened in it's aftermath. This is not a story I had heard before.
Alcott is a journalist. This is her first novel, and it is highly researched. In it, she tells the disturbing tale of selfish and cowardly behavior on the part of several survivors, who were in nearly empty lifeboats, yet refused to turn back and help rescue the hundreds of others drowning nearby.
The story is told from the point of view of Tess, a young dressmaker trying to make her way in America, and caught between loyalty to the woman who could make her dreams come true, and her conscience.
An interesting and illuminating novel.
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