Pastoral

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Pastoral

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4.05 (1,583 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 3 September, 2009
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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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780099530138
ISBN10 0099530139
Number Of Pages 240
Item Weight 174 g
Product Dimensions 130 x 197 x 15 mm
Publisher / Reseller Vintage Publishing
Format paperback
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One of the happiest books which war has called into being * Sunday Times *

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Author's Bio

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).

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