No Moon

Fourteen-year-old Louisa Gardener works as a nursemaid in London in 1912, caring for the daughters of a wealthy, titled family. She enjoys the children and her duties, though Nanny Mackintosh bullies her and treats her as an extra pair of hands.

Her routine collapses when the children's nanny is injured only days before the family is due to sail to New York on the Titanic. Louisa has no choice but to take the nanny's place, even though the mere mention of the ocean terrifies her. Memories she has buried, surfacing only in nightmares, begin to return. At five, she was present when her two-year-old brother drowned during a day at the seaside, and she has feared the sea ever since, blaming herself even though she has been told the accident was not her fault.

Refusing the voyage would cost her the position and trap her in the working-class life she has worked to leave. The novel follows Louisa as she learns to rely on herself, confronts her fears, and goes further than anyone expects of a girl in her position.