The book ‘The Girl Who Came Home’ is written by Hazel Gaynor. ‘The Girl Who Came Home’ is a novel. The main character in the story is a young Irish woman, Maggie Murphy, who sails on the RMS Titanic in 1912 hoping for a better life in America. In the story, after surviving the disaster, she wakes up alone in a New York hospital and vows never to speak of that night again.