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  No matter how many articles you read or how many stories you listen to about the Titanic, our curiosities are as humungous as the ship itself. We know how it set sail. We know how it went down. We cannot fathom what happened in between.  The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor addresses just that.  From the author's website, I learnt that Hazel had always been so inspired to write a story around the Titanic's maiden voyage, which never happened. Finally, in the centenary year in 2012, she came up with this story. This book has been inspired by true events of 14 Irish emigrants who left their homes in County Mayo, Ireland to travel on Titanic to relatives in America. She researched extensively on the Titanic from fixtures to knives to learn about the grandeur of the ship and what it must have meant to the passengers who were traveling that day. She wrote this book from the perspective of what really happened to the survivors much later. Where did they go? What did they go...