I thoroughly enjoyed this novel about the Titanic. Highly recommended for readers of historical fiction!

This book was an absolute gem! It was interesting and inspiring! I loved every minute of it, plus everyone loves a good Titanic story!

I loved this book. Extremely well written and interesting characters and plot. Could not put it down. My thanks to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I'll be honest. I went into this book with lower expectations since this is not usually the type of book that I would enjoy but I have dabbled into the historical fiction genre before, and actually did like some of the books. I was not familiar with this author, or anything else that they have written either, so I didn't know what to expect. I have to say though, this was one of my favorite reads of the year.

The pacing was really well done and in the beginning, we got to see a lot of Elinor's background and what happened that led to the events that occurred. Even in the events before the Titanic, we got to see a lot of how Elinor found herself in the marriage to Frederick, gave birth to her son, and went through so much mental turmoil involving how she could be a mother to her son when every one was against her. At first, I thought that this part was really long, but looking back, it really did need to be that long, with that much detail to really show what she had gone through. And the gaslighting that occurred was just crazy, and really made me feel so mad on Elinor's behalf.

Then, we reach the middle of the book, where we get to see a major turning point in her life, that leads her to where she is able to attempt to make a better life for her and her son, and truly escape. Afterwords, Elinor goes through her new life, sometimes with regret, but knowing that she needs to remain strong for herself and for her son, in order to do what she believes is best for them. Through all of the hard times, she does her absolute best considering she was so young and inexperienced with everything she had to deal with.

The entire book was so emotional and I really was rooting for Elinor and hoping she would finally be able to sever all ties and be truly free.

Thank you to Frances Quinn, Random House Publishing Group, and NetGalley for the eARC of this book. This is my honest review.

Elinor has led a comfortable life with her father as he has done well in the cotton business. When she meets the aristocratic Fredrick Coombes, she falls for him and is quickly married. Unbeknownst to Elinor, the Coombes family has very rigid expectations and the life she had hoped for is far different from the lonely restricted life she is stuck in.

When her father gifts tickets to travel on the famous Titanic ship to New York, Elinor is ecstatic to have a few months of freedom from her life. On the ship, she enjoys time with her young son, Teddy, and with her father as she befriends a young pregnant girl Molly who is off to the U.S. in hopes of a better life. But when the Titanic sinks, Frances is left alone with Teddy as her husband and father perish. She sees a fresh start for her life and assumes a new identity in NY. Once her fear of being found out subsides, Elinor finds she enjoys her new life despite how hard she has to work. Just as she lets her guard down, someone from her past recognizes her and she fears the new life she has created will be destroyed forever.

It’s hard to empathize with the challenges of wealthy people, but Elinor’s story highlights the self-imposed restrictions of the aristocracy. I felt so sad for how she was treated as a new mother when all she wanted was to be with her son. Her willingness to adapt to a life so different from her own and her desire to work hard and reach for her dreams is at the heart of this historical novel set in the years leading up to and after the infamous Titanic disaster.

Thank you @ballantinebooks @randomhouse @netgalley for a #gifted early digital copy of this novel.

This was a pick up and put down book. I started it half a dozen times and put it down in favor of something else or some other book. It was slow going. It never reeled me in. There was no hook. In places the writing was a brilliant, in other mediocre and repetitive. I am unsure why I kept revisiting this book. It did make me wonder how many people have recreated themselves in the wake of a spectacular tragedy.

If you are interested in a period piece with some information on the sinking of the Titanic, a women’s lack of place and rights in British aristocracy, an immigrant’s life on the lower east side of Manhattan and multiple relationships, this might be a book to put on your TBR list.

Thanks to DEll and NetGalley for a copy.

In this fascinating new novel about the Titanic, readers follow Elinor Coombes as she realizes that her fairy-tale marriage with the son of an English aristocrat is not the happy ending and loving marriage she had expected -- her husband and his family like her father’s money more than Elinor herself. Trapped by her in-laws, Elinor is desperately lonely. When her father’s gift of Titanic tickets seems to offer the escape she wants, Elinor seizes the chance to start her life over by stealing another woman’s identity after the ship sinks. Fighting to survive in 1912 New York City, Elinor must take on this new world and keep her secrets and her son safe at all costs. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey or The Gilded Age, readers will love Elinor’s cleverness and inner strength as she handles challenges and moves on with her life in this brilliant new novel. The characters are definitely the stars of the book, and Elinor’s growth over the course of the novel really pulls readers into this fantastic and detailed historical setting. Entertaining, emotional, and triumphant, readers will love the fascinating historical world that Quinn brings to life in this exciting and inspiring novel about hard work and independence paying off.

.A pseudo-mystery about a woman who takes a chance at a new life after the sinking of the Titanic. Historical fiction.
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Elinor, who’s in a loveless marriage and managed my her heartless and remote aristocratic in-laws, embarks on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, with her father, husband, young son, Teddy, and Rose, her maid. Her maid has reservations and opts not to board the boat. Molly, a maid in 3rd class, overhears and takes Rose’s place. Only Elinor and Teddy survive and in order to avoid her in-laws taking guardianship of Teddy, she decides to assume Molly’s identity and live in New York.

There were some glaring aspects that were totally inauthentic. Like Elinor’s total lack of knowledge about the aristocracy when she had grown up in a wealthy family. It brought me out of the story. There were others as well.

Not bad, not great. Some parts were good.

Thank you NetGalley and Random House For giving me the opportunity to read this unpublished novel.

Wonderful multilayered story. The storytelling in this book really captured my interest. The descriptions of life on the Titanic as well as the minute to minute details of the sinking were very captivating. Above that the character development was rich and it was easy to feel connected to the characters both in England and in the US. I will certainly be on the lookout for future books by Frances Quinn.

I generally don’t read historical fiction from this time period, but I’m so glad I did. This immersive, captivating story revolves around Elinor, a young mother trapped in a loveless marriage to a shallow man with a lofty pedigree. When her father presents her with the opportunity to sail on the infamous Titanic’s maiden voyage, she jumps at the chance to spend a few precious weeks with her son away from the prying eyes of her new aristocratic family. Elinor and her 2-year-old son miraculously survive the ship’s sinking, and she seizes the opportunity to fake their deaths and start a new life in New York City.

I was glued to this story from the first page to the last! I had been expecting a lot more focus on the Titanic, but found that really wasn’t a big part of this book. The heart of the story is in Elinor’s emotional and riveting journey starting over in NYC. The medium-quick pacing is perfect to maintain tension while also allowing for wonderful character development. There is a strong theme of found family in this novel that was especially moving to me! I do wish there were more details from Elinor’s time on the Titanic, even just to enrich the historical context and setting. Nonetheless, The Lost Passenger was very well done, and I am looking forward to reading more from Frances Quinn!

Big thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for the gifted eARC!

The Lost Passenger, by Francis Quinn, is a story set in the early 1900s after the Titanic tragedy. Elinor Coombes married into a wealthy English family and was aboard the Titanic with her son, Teddy. Unhappy with the constraints of living within an elite social class, Elinor decides to assume someone else’s identity as the Titanic is sinking. And so begins their new life in New York City. Living in tenements and struggling to survive becomes Eleanor and Teddy‘s new life. This is a story about resilience and overcoming a difficult situation in order to do what’s best for your child.

I expected this to be a solid read. I expected it to be well written. What I want expecting was just how good this book was. I was hooked from the beginning, and it really showed the sinking of the Titanic in a way that was fresh, which is a hard thing to do.

Wealthy heiress Elinor Coombes finds herself married into an aristocratic family. She soon finds out that her husband didn’t marry her for love, but for her money, as a way to keep the estate solvent. After a trip aboard the Titanic ends in tragedy, she sees it as a way to escape, and raise her son on her own terms.

Thank you NetGalley and Ballantine for the ARC.

THIS is a masterpiece! absolutely worth the read. i appreciate it when authors do their research to really build the story. definitely well written. i've recommended this several times for people looking for historical fictions, and they enjoyed it. highly recommend!

thank you to NetGalley for allowing me the opportunity to read this book. i received this book as an ARC. all thoughts and opinions of this book are my own, and i leave this review voluntarily.

I really enjoyed this book, as the sinking of the Titanic is one of those historical events that I have always found fascinating, especially what could have happened to all of the people on board, and how the survivors lived their lives as survivors of the Titanic, and if they ever admitted to the fact they were on board. I found the description of Elinor's life in NYC to be very realistic feeling, and it felt as though I could see her on the streets, selling fabrics and making a life for her and her son beyond her past life in England that she left behind. I really appreciated her character, and how she chose the best life she could for herself and her son after living through the trauma of the maiden voyage of the Titanic.

Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.

This was a very interesting book.And title says it all. The Woman called ELINO.R.Mary's into a family who needed her father's money. Edward.
Was not a very good husband for her.She realized she did not love her. It was very hard for her because her mother in law was very mean to her. She longed to be back in her family because her family really respected her. She had a son but she could not be with me only twenty minutes a day. She also. Found out.
Her husband was seeing another woman he really loved. This woman became friends with her but she did not realize Until edward's sister told her all About it. Her father Got ticket. For the family On the T I t a n I c. But another woman named Molly came with Family but not the HERM AI. D. When When a ship starts to go down she made it out with her baby.. She made it to.
New York under a different name.She wondered her freedom. She moved into her family who was supposed to have molly. This was really hard for her because she always had everything done for her. And realized right away.This woman never did anything in her life. This part of the book gets really good. Because this woman became really strong and she wanted her son to have the freedom to be who we wanted to be. She started sewing and then she had her own push cart. 2 people recognized her but she found ways to get around this.And this remained her a few more stronger. She helped.
Somebody who was the waiter. And this gets really interesting at the end of the book. The woman who was sleeping with her husband got what she deserved. This is why it's called the lost passenger because his person took on a whole new didn't do. The family who took her in really embraced her. Great book

When I was younger, my historical hyper fixation was the Titanic - so I was drawn to this immediately. However, so much of the book is about what takes place following her journey, which felt just as compelling. The storytelling captured the time period wonderfully and felt genuinely immersive.

Elinor Coombes is a young woman in England who comes from a humble background, but her father, known as The Cotton King, just happened to make it big. She is a bit of a Princess Di character, because when the local aristocrat courts her and quickly proposes marriage, she is charmed by the fairytale romance of it all. She quickly leans, however, that her husband married her strictly for money and it is a marriage of convenience only for him. Elinor is brokenhearted and refuses to accept her lot in life quietly. Then she produces a male heir, and her husband signs a will saying that his parents will have control of their son Teddy should something happen to him.

Then Elinor's father treats her and her family to a trip on the inaugeration journey of the Titanic. We all know this will end in tragedy, but for Elinor it becomes a way to escape the old life she hates.

I enjoyed several aspects of this book. It gave a great picture of how the class system affected society, and that just having money wasn't enough to overcome snobbery of birth. The description of the sinking of the Titanic was very well done and realistic. Then the details of how Elinor, who has never had to take care of herself, is able to start a new life and the details of how she did it seem very real.

I enjoyed entering this era of history through the author's story. The writing was gripping and the character of Elinor was admirable.

Thank you to NetGalley, Frances Quinn, and Random House for allowing me to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Frances Quinn has created a great piece of historical fiction. I can't wait to read more by her! I love the setting for this book. Her descriptive writing makes this book come alive.

This is an unusual historical fiction novel taking place in the early 1900s with settings in both England and NYC. When Elinor finds herself in a loveless, basically arranged marriage with her only duty to provide a male heir, she sees no happy future for herself or her young son. When her father treats her and her family to first class tickets on the infamous Titanic, she envisions a short reprieve from the life she is trapped in, but the sinking of the ship and her and her son’s survival allows her an opportunity to take on a new identity and a life of hardship but at least, with prospects of a better future, especially for her two year old son, Teddy.
I really enjoyed this book for several reasons. First , I liked the Downton Abbey vibe and how Elinor’s circumstances were similar to the TV show with the exception of her horrible in-laws being nothing like the Crawleys. Second, Elinor was a great character and well developed by the author. Her survival instincts and sacrifice for her son’s future showed her to be a resilient and strong woman. Third, I loved the depiction of the time period both in aristocratic England and in the lives of hardworking immigrants in NYC. And in addition, the author was so creative in her storytelling. She managed to make her character find a unique solution to her dreary and hopeless life in the face of a tragedy. And Elinor was not callous about what happened to her - she obviously suffered from PTSD and she was extremely sensitive and grateful to the family who gave her a second chance. All the main characters in America were very likable and the horrible in-laws very hateable. Overall, the book is very creative and well written with engaging depictions of the times.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review. Opinions are my own.