Synopsis
When war came to Southampton, no-one expected it to be like this - least of all the Corbetts. Their home a ruin without gas, electricity or water, no milk for the baby, thypoid and cholera a daily threat, and bombs from the sky a nightly terror.
In a desparate attempt to save their children, Joan and Peter begin a heart-stirring journye that exchanges the dangers on land for the darkness and waste of the sea....
Written in 1938, this moving and dramatic novel of simple heroism shows a master storyteller and modern prophet at his irresistible best.
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About the Author
Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London.After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).
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"Mr Shute is a storyteller in the tradition of R.L. Stevenson and Kipling" * Evening News * "One of the best storytellers of our age" -- J.B.Priestley "That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is wholly deceptive...is, in fact, masterly" -- H.E. Bates
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