November 2021: an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes in the Channel, causing the deaths of 27 people on board. How and why did it happen?
The narrator of Delecroix’s fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies?
A shocking, moral tale of our times, Small Boat reminds us of the power of fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes… More here.
Somehow I got to the end of Small Boat. Aside from a part in the middle which, in harrowing terms, describes how so many people died that night, the rest ion the book is poorly written with numerous spelling mistakes throughout. I cannot understand how this book got nominated for a Booker Prize and can only presume that the topic was enough to bring it to the attention of so many. This crisis is unbelievably sad for so many reasons and this book is not the one to read if you want to know more, in my humble opinion.
McGST 
I hadn’t heard of this tragedy, but I won’t read this book.
On the beta, I think I’m not crazy about the rounded buttons and glass look. It just doesn’t add anything useful.
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It’s a big political issue in the UK. Yeah. The glass look is not good- just installed it.
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