A review by phonologia
The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic by Hazel Gaynor

2.0

I love a good historical fiction novel for light reading, but every line of this book had me rolling my eyes from cliche overload. Each character was a flat, utterly predictable trope (naive but well-intentioned American college girl, naive but well-intentioned Irish girl, wise and spunky grandmother, stern unmarried aunt, selfish rich lady, etc. etc. etc.), and I spotted the surprise ending about halfway through the book. I'm not usually this harsh, but I found very little to redeem this book.