Ruined City
Nevil Shute
240 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1842322907
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2000
British LiteratureClassicsEconomicsFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNovels
When Henry Warren, director of an English bank, lands by chance in a hospital in a bleak Northern town that has been ruined by the closure of its shipyard, he discovers nothing less than a new purpose for his life. Moved by the fate of the town’s inhabitants, Warren risks his fortune and reputation to save the shipyard and restore the town to its former prosperity. In seeking to change the fate of the town, he radically changes his own.