Author: Nevil Shute

I’ve read this book before but my latest reading was a long time ago. The picture I had in my mind was of a man, in silhouette, sitting alone and watching a sunset over a body of water. I’m not sure where that image came from because there is no such moment in the book. As far as I remember there was no cover on the book on Mum and Dad’s shelf, and the book I picked up from a library sale also came without a cover.

Regardless of what I remember, I loved the book again! The conversation between the characters is perhaps a bit dated but it didn’t take away from the story. The story is dismal – the Northern Hemisphere has been wiped out in a nuclear war and the radiation is spreading around the globe. I can’t imagine as orderly an end as the characters portrayed in the book manage. They seemed rather philosophical in that everyone dies sometime but they just happened to know when it would happen.

Yes Stacia, the book stands up to the test of time!

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