It begins in 1916 when she is in an asylum and receives a letter from a friend, Violet Jessop (a real person) who had been on the Titanic with her, asking her to join her as nurse on the Britannic.

The story revolves around Annie Hebbley, a stewardess on the Titanic and a nurse on the Britannic. There is a large cast of characters, some are real people and others are fictional the stories on the two ships are told from their different perspectives.

It moves between 1912 as the Titanic sets sail on its maiden voyage and 1916, as its sister ship the Britannic, converted to a hospital picks up soldiers injured in the battlefields to take them back to England. It began really well and it’s beautifully written. I loved The Hunger by Alma Katsu, so I was looking forward to reading The Deep. īringing together Faustian pacts, the occult, tales of sirens and selkies, guilt and revenge, desire and destiny, The Deep offers a thrilling, tantalizing twist on one of the world’s most famous tragedies. And she is about to realise that those demons from her past and the terrors of that doomed voyage have not finished with her yet. Having survived that fateful night, Annie is now a nurse on board the Titanic’s sister ship, the Britannic , refitted as a hospital ship. And then disaster strikes.įour years later and the world is at war. Four days later, caught in what feels like an eerie, unsettling twilight zone, some passengers – including millionaire Madeleine Astor and maid Annie Hebbley – are convinced that something sinister is afoot. Deaths and disappearances have plagued the vast liner from the moment she began her maiden voyage on 10 April 1912.

The Deep by Alma Katsu