Poignant, sad but reflective as well this story combined elements of a forgotten and buried love story which just had to be discovered, the doom and deaths on the Titanic and a present day young student bewildered by the loss of her young boyfriend and trying to maintain a stiff upper lip with her fellow students.
Violet Hutchins is the young sophomore at Harvard, desperately trying to manage her life on a day to day basis after witnessing the drowning of a very much loved boyfriend. Now seconded for work in the Widener library, she is attuned from the start to the actual spirit and work of the young Harry Widener who died on the Titanic.
The story is told in stages going back and forth between the years of the Titanic and present day Harvard, the contrast between the almost aristocratic Widener family and the middle class Hutchins one. Very beautifully told, heart rendingly sad for every one of the characters in the story the spiritual side of a ghost manifesting itself is very realistically portrayed.
I liked the manner that everything beautifully dovetailed and provided a complete explanation of what was an incomplete story before.
Sent by Union Square & Co - a subsidiary of Sterling Publishing, for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley.
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