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A steamboat sets off from nineteenth-century Boston carrying a diverse group of people who gradually, over the course of the thirteen-day voyage, reveal their true colors behind the grey Victorian code of manners
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Peter Prince is the author of the novels Play Things, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and The Good Father, which was made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins. He has also written for the screen (The Hit, Waterland), and TV (the PBS/BBC series Oppenheimer and the BBC adaptation of Muriel Spark's Memento Mori). He lives in London.
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Valentine's Day, 1865, the paddle steamer Laurentia, Captain Donald McDonough commanding, left the Inman Line wharf in East Boston bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Liverpool. Her sailing day was a Tuesday as usual. . . . ""<br><br>A s the Laurentia makes her stately passage across the gray Atlantic, the passengers are left to their own devices to fill the thirteen days until they reach England's shores. They will form alliances, make enemies, negotiate deals, and swindle, seduce, and betray one another--all while upholding the strictest standards of nineteenth-century decorum.<br><br>The diverse passenger list includes:<br>Arthur and Olivia Crichton--a middle-aged businessman and his beautiful, much younger wife, a couple trying to believe that they are happy<br>The Reverend Stibbards--a clergyman with an unusually secular appreciation of the female passengers<br>Mrs. Stewart--a widow of obvious charms but rather uncertain means<br>Charles Stuart--a black entertai
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