Deeply moving and rich with vivid detail . . . Timothy Schaffert is an exquisite storyteller.
—Lara Prescott New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept From the author of The
Perfume Thief a remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books and second chances
following the Titanic librarian who opens a bookshop in Paris where he meets a secret society
of survivors. For weeks after the sinking of the Titanic Yorick spots his own name among the
list of those lost at sea. As an apprentice librarian for the White Star Line his job was to
curate the ship’s second-class library. But the day the Titanic set sail he was left stranded
at the dock. After the ship’s sinking Yorick takes this twist of fate as a sign to follow his
lifelong dream of owning a bookshop in Paris. Soon after he receives an invitation to a secret
society of survivors where he encounters other ticket holders who didn’t board the ship.
Haunted by their good fortune they decide to form a book society where they can grapple with
their own anxieties through heated discussions of The Awakening or The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Of this ragtag group Yorick finds himself particularly drawn to the glamorous Zinnia and the
mysterious Haze and a tangled triangle of love and friendship forms among them. Yet with the
Great War on the horizon and the unexpected death of one of their own the surviving book club
members are left wondering what fate might have in store. Elegant and elegiac The Titanic
Survivors Book Club is a dazzling ode to love chance and the transformative power of books to
bring people together.
