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What Happened to the Corbetts
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This novel appeals to readers interested in historical fiction, wartime adventure, and character-driven stories about resilience in the face of disaster.
What Happened to the Corbetts
Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton that destroys the city's infrastructure and leaves the inhabitants at the mercy of cholera and further assaults.
A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it, he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton that destroys the city's infrastructure and leaves the inhabitants at the mercy of cholera and further assaults.
The story follows the trials and tribulations of the Corbett family as they try to get to safety.
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Esteemed writer J.B. Priestley hails Shute as "one of the best storytellers of our age," while the Evening News likens his storytelling to that of R.L. Stevenson and Kipling. H.E. Bates praises Shute's "shattering, unaffected, literary style" as masterly and deceptively simple.
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ISBN: 9780099529972
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 September 2009
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 184g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Nevil Shute 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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