Pastoral
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Set against the backdrop of wartime England, this quietly moving novel chronicles the lives of RAF bomber crews stationed at a Lincolnshire airfield during World War II, weaving together themes of duty, love, and the fragile beauty of ordinary life amid extraordinary danger. Nevil Shute's Pastoral centers on the tender romance between a young squadron leader and a WAAF officer, illustrating how human connection persists and deepens even in the shadow of loss and uncertainty. Written with Shute's characteristic warmth and understated prose, the narrative captures the rhythms of daily life on a wartime base — the briefings, the waiting, the grief — with an authenticity drawn from the author's own wartime experience. The tone is gentle yet deeply affecting, presenting war not through grand heroics but through the quiet courage of men and women who carry on with grace and humor. A deeply humane work, it stands as one of Shute's most personal and enduring novels, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit in the most trying of circumstances.
Author: Nevil Shute
Format: Hardback
Published: 1945, William Heinemann Ltd.
Genre: Romance
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Set against the backdrop of wartime England, this quietly moving novel chronicles the lives of RAF bomber crews stationed at a Lincolnshire airfield during World War II, weaving together themes of duty, love, and the fragile beauty of ordinary life amid extraordinary danger. Nevil Shute's Pastoral centers on the tender romance between a young squadron leader and a WAAF officer, illustrating how human connection persists and deepens even in the shadow of loss and uncertainty. Written with Shute's characteristic warmth and understated prose, the narrative captures the rhythms of daily life on a wartime base — the briefings, the waiting, the grief — with an authenticity drawn from the author's own wartime experience. The tone is gentle yet deeply affecting, presenting war not through grand heroics but through the quiet courage of men and women who carry on with grace and humor. A deeply humane work, it stands as one of Shute's most personal and enduring novels, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit in the most trying of circumstances.