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Vivid, thrilling...an extraordinary story of human courage. -- Times Literary Supplement (London) This masterly reconstruction renders the Titanic story vital again. -- Mail on Sunday (London) Gareth Russell has chosen a handful of passengers on the doomed liner and, by training a spotlight on every detail of their lives, he has given us a meticulous, sensitive, and at times harsh picture of the early twentieth century in Britain and America. A marvelous piece of work. -- Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey and New York Times bestselling author Examines the rapidly changing world of the Edwardian upper classes and shows how their privilege 'left many of them unaware or indifferent to the coming danger until it was too late.' -- Irish Times (Dublin) Deeply researched and lushly detailed, The Ship of Dreams shines new light on both the bygone Golden Age and the iconic tragedy that marked the beginning of its end. -- Lynn Vincent, New York Times bestselling author

Deeply researched and lushly detailed, The Ship of Dreams shines new light on both the bygone Golden Age and the iconic tragedy that marked the beginning of its end. -- Lynn Vincent, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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Educated at Oxford University and Queens University, Belfast, Gareth Russell is a historian, novelist, and playwright. He is the author of The Ship of Dreams, Young and Damned and Fair, The Emperor, and An Illustrated Introduction to the Tudors. He lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Jenny Funnell is best known for her role as Sandy in the British sitcom As Time Goes By. Her other television credits include appearances in Coming of Age, The Bill, Agatha Christie's Peril at End House, and Casualty. She's also been seen in Drop the Dead Donkey, Boon, Bergerac, and Brookside. She has had leading roles in hundreds of radio plays and series and is the winner of a Carleton Hobbs BBC Radio Drama Award. Jenny narrated Agatha Christie's The Seven Dials Mystery, published by Macmillan Audio.

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