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facing your fears
forgiveness
journey
life
literary fiction
mortality
murder charge
novella
race relations
raf officer
redemption
second chances
survival
the denial of death
the journey within
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transforming yourself
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Product details
- ISBN 9780099530022
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 03 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very different men he met briefly during the war: an snobbish British pilot, a young corporal accused of murder, and a black G.I. accused of attempted rape. Along the way, Turner learns about forgiveness, tolerance and second chances, and overcomes his fear of death.
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).
