Daughter of the Titanic

"Press call them an unlucky family, an unlucky woman." I have enjoyed immensely Caroline Cauchi’s previous novels about strong women that history forgot or marginalised. This time she focuses on Helen (Melville) – Mrs Russell Cooke, daughter of Captain Edward Smith of the fated Titanic. And what a re......more

The Daughter of the Titanic follows the life of Helen Melville Smith starting right after the Titanic sank. This is not a book about the Titanic. It is about the grief that comes from that tragedy & how it can shape the rest of the lives it affects. Grief in the public eye, love, loss & choosing to......more

This is an inspiring novel about an extradordinary woman, whose memory would othwerwise have been diminished to being just someone's wife on a headstone. Helen Melville Smith (later know as Mrs Russell Cooke) was the only daughter of the Captain of the ill-fated Titanic and she was a young teenager w......more

It feels like I've been reading Caroline Cauchi's writing forever! I discovered her many many years ago when she was writing as Caroline Smailes, I devoured her quirky, lyrical books. Ten years ago she wrote The Finding of Martha Lost, using the name Caroline Wallace, and once again, I was entranced......more

Daughter of the Titanic sheds light on Helen Melville Smith and the grief she dealt with after losing her father - Captain Edward John Smith who went down with the Titanic in April 1912. The story is set in England, and alternates between two timelines 1972 when Dr. Catherine Haynes from the History......more