Book description
During the Second World War, Peter Marshall's crew become one of the
most successful bombing teams in their Oxfordshire airbase. However,
when Peter falls in love with a young WAAF officer, his concentration
begins to suffer and it looks as though his perfect run of missions -
and his life - may be threatened. 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).
