Ruined City - Nevil Shute

Category: Adults, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Australian

Written by Nevil Shute
Read by Gareth Armstrong
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Ruined City
By: Nevil Shute
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 16-03-2013
Language: English
Publisher: Audible Studios

Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of its shipyard. Moved by the fate of the town’s inhabitants, Warren risks his fortune and reputation to save the shipyard and restore the town to its former prosperity. In seeking to change the fate of the town, he radically changes his own.

Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 - 12 January 1960) was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons, but after the conflict 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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