For the four fraught mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912 the Titanic sails towards New York glittering with luxury freighted with millionaires & hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last secret hours of a small group of passengers their fate sealed in prose of startling sublime beauty as Beryl Bainbridges haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known & terrible end.