Requiem For A Wren By Nevil Shute Norway (Paperback, 2009)

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The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a heartrending story of doomed wartime romance Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war & several years of study in England But his homecoming is marred by the mysterious suicide of his parents' quiet & reliable parlour-maid A search through her belongings in search of clues leads to heartbreaking revelations about the woman's identity the death of Alan's brother Bill & above all the disappearance of his brother's fiancee Janet Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing London After attending the Dragon School & Shrewsbury School he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College Oxford He worked as an aeronautical engineer & published his first novel Marazan in 1926 In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton & 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 & 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) & On the Beach (1957)