This means that when you hand a Nevil Shute book to a new reader, you often have to coax them past the first few chapters, which can be mundane to the point of dull. Shute often uses the everyday to provide a contrast to a shocking or disorienting or harrowing situation. However, she agrees to a trial courtship to see if her feelings of fondness might actually be something deeper. She likes him, but she doesn’t believe that she is in love with him and she isn’t interested in a relationship that isn’t serious. officer (Gervase) while stationed in Britain. The pilot (Peter) falls in love with the W.A.A.F. This is a book that is deceptively low on plot. One of Shute’s lesser-known books is Pastoral, a lovely romance between a British bomber pilot and a W.A.A.F. I don’t know that many Americans that stockpile Nevil Shute books like we do, but all you have to do to get a McGowan woman excited is say, “So…tell me about A Town Like Alice” and we just fall all over ourselves with enthusiasm (you can read my enthusiastic review here). All the women on my mom’s half of the family, and there are a ton of us, are obsessed with the writings of Nevil Shute. We don’t have a family doctor, but we do have a family author (as in, an author the family loves, not an author to whom we are related). Back when my mom was growing up and general practitioner doctors were the norm, people used to refer to having a family doctor.
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