Scatterbrook

Scatterbrook

'It was pitch-black and Tilly Cartwright had no idea where the ship had gone down, with such a shriek and roar of tortured metal, it masked the screams of the drowning, a sound that would haunt her for the rest of her life.
‘Steady the boat there!’
The command rang into the shocked silence. In the light of a rag set ablaze by a crewman, the man precariously balanced on the upturned lifeboat, clambered thankfully aboard.
‘Dear God, please tell me it’s John.’ From the back of the boat, a woman’s voice tailed off helplessly. It wasn’t John and never likely to be, even Tilly knew. Titanic, the unsinkable had sunk, marooned at the bottom of the ocean, leaving the occupants of the lifeboats to call helplessly across the black expanse of water for family members they must know they would never see again. They were marooned, cast away with no light, food or even water. Never in anyone’s wildest dreams did they think the pride of the White Star Line would sink...'
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