About The Lifeboat:Inspiration for “The Lifeboat” struck when Rogan was curiously digging around in her lawyer husband’s home library. Her attention was captured by an 18th century case concerning two starving castaways who were stranded in a lifeboat for weeks. When they were rescued they were charged with murder because they had resorted to cannibalism to survive. Their conviction established the principle that killing another person to save one’s own life was not a valid defense. “The Lifeboat” explores some of the same deeply chilling questions of survival.
"Exciting at the literal level and brutally moving at the existential.”
—Emma Donoghue, author of Room
About Charlotte Rogan:
Ms. Rogan began shaping The Lifeboat more than a decade ago while she was living in Dallas raising her triplets, who are now in college. When she pulled the manuscript out of a drawer a couple of years ago, practically on a whim, her agent sent it to Little, Brown & Co., and a few months after her 57th birthday, Ms. Rogan signed her first book contract. For more information visit charlotterogan.com.
