It sounds like a Titanic adventure!

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I'm really interested in anything to do with the Titanic – I find it fascinating and tragic – so this sounds like it would be a good read.

Delia and her older sister, Nora, are given the chance to escape their small village of Kilcross, in County Donegal when their family receives letters asking them to take jobs as hired helps in New York. Nora's position will be as a governess to a child, while Delia will be a lowly maid.

Both girls feel rather hard done by – Nora thinks that their father's favourite is Delia, while Delia is considered by her mother to be a changeling left by the fairies as her twin brother died shortly after birth – so they are both excited by the opportunity to leave their family home.

The extract ends as the girls start their journey to board the Titanic and we know that things won't be plain sailing!

I quite like the cover: it's a bit old fashioned but well drawn. The book has an interesting premise and I'd like to find out more about how the story unfolds.