Trustee from the Toolroom

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'Nevil Shute's new novel is a quietly and deliberately terrible book,
all the more terrible for its characteristic half-muted tones and
subdued colours It is, I think, by far Mr. Shute's most consid-
erable achievement, on a bigger theme than most of his other
novels and more sharply focused than some, executed with an even
surer firmness of touch and at times moving.'
m. r. ridley, Daily Telegraph
4 He is a brilliant descriptive writer, a master of suspense. Time and
again there are superb passages that could be lifted out and put
into a text-book of action writing his latest book seems to me
to be the undiluted essence of Shute . .
david holloway, News Chronicle
\ . . Mr. Shute's spine-chilling fantasy: the more spine-chilling
because he has kept it, on the whole, skilfully muted and restrained
. . . Mr. Shute's image (he has not confined himself by trying to
make a normally shaped novel out of it) is both moving and
horrifying.' ronald bryden, The Listener... Tovább

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'Nevil Shute's new novel is a quietly and deliberately terrible book,
all the more terrible for its characteristic half-muted tones and
subdued colours It is, I think, by far Mr. Shute's most consid-
erable achievement, on a bigger theme than most of his other
novels and more sharply focused than some, executed with an even
surer firmness of touch and at times moving.'
m. r. ridley, Daily Telegraph
4 He is a brilliant descriptive writer, a master of suspense. Time and
again there are superb passages that could be lifted out and put
into a text-book of action writing his latest book seems to me
to be the undiluted essence of Shute . .
david holloway, News Chronicle
\ . . Mr. Shute's spine-chilling fantasy: the more spine-chilling
because he has kept it, on the whole, skilfully muted and restrained
. . . Mr. Shute's image (he has not confined himself by trying to
make a normally shaped novel out of it) is both moving and
horrifying.' ronald bryden, The Listener
'Nevil Shute, I can only hope, is not any kind of prophet. Mr.
Shute's new novel, On the Beach, has a theme that is simple,
sombre and inescapably readable I am not sure that it is not
the best thing he has ever written.' vernon fane, Sphere
'The end of the world is a sombre and awe-inspiring theme. Mr.
Shute's variation on it has a melancholy plausibility: he works it
v6ut in his own characteristic fashion, casually, factually, with an
easy and a compelling vividness if you can read it without being
brought to the edge of tears you are harder and more callous than
I am.' john connell, Evening News
The film of On the Beach, produced and directed by Stanley Kra-
mer, and released through United Artists, starred Gregory Peck, Ava
Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins.
Keith stewart's life resembled
that of thousands of other English-
men. He lived in Ealing, he was happily
married, he worked hard for a small
salary, he had a mortgage to pay off—and
he was a contented man. In his house
he had fixed up a model engineering
workshop, and through his contributions
to the Miniature Mechanic he was known,
as his daily post proved, to enthusiasts
all over the world.
One day the tramlines of Keith Stew-
art's life were torn up. He woke up to
find that he had become the trustee of
his ten-year-old niece and that he was
committed to a wild quest for a cache
which his own ingenuity had helped to
hide. He began in deep waters—on a
2,000 mile voyage across the Pacific in a
small yacht with one companion, and
a very strange one at that; and he ended
in high altitudes—among the top ech-
elons of American big business, Keith
Stewart's happiest discovery, apart from
what he set out to find, was that he had
more friends in the world than he knew
about.
Nevil Shute's new book is on a theme
dear to his heart: the ordeal of an ordin-
ary man plunged into extraordinary
circumstances and emerging with his
personal values unshaken. Trustee from
the Toolroom is a splendid story, whose
sense of adventure and the power of
friendship make it the happiest, as well
as the last, of Nevil Shute's novels. Vissza