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Title	:	Requiem for a Wren
Author	:	Nevil Shute
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 285 pages
Published	:	July 1st 2002 by House of Stratus (first published 1955)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Australia. War. Classics. World War II

Requiem for a Wren

Nevil Shute

Paperback | Pages: 285 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 1667 Users | 179 Reviews

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Requiem for a Wren (U.S. title The Breaking Wave) is one of Nevil Shute's most poignant and psychologically suspenseful novels, set in the years just after World War II.

Sidelined by a wartime injury, fighter pilot Alan Duncan reluctantly returns to his parents' remote sheep station in Australia to take the place of his brother Bill, who died a hero in the war. But his homecoming is marred by the suicide of his parents' parlormaid, of whom they were very fond.

Alan soon realizes that the dead young woman is not the person she pretended to be. Upon discovering that she had served in the Royal Navy and participated along with his brother in the secret build-up to the Normandy invasion, Alan sets out to piece together the tragic events and the lonely burden of guilt that unravelled one woman's life.

In the process of finding the answer to the mystery, he realizes how much he had in common with this woman he never knew and how a war can go on killing people long after it's all over.

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Original Title:	Requiem for a Wren
ISBN:	1842322869 (ISBN13: 9781842322864)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Alan Duncan, Janet Prentice, Bill Duncan

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Ratings: 3.99 From 1667 Users | 179 Reviews

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Nevil Shute's books were written a long time ago but are well worth reading. This book is set during world war II.



Sometimes I think I am just not that good at reading some kinds of mainstream fiction. I am too easily aggravated. That's far too broad of a statement, I am aware. It's not like I only read science fiction, or even that science fiction is devoid of characters or plots that piss me the hell off. Still, I have even less patience for those elements when they come wrapped in mundanity.Note: The rest of this review has been withheld due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read

4.5★requiemnoun [ C ] UK /ˈrek.wi.əm/ US /ˈrek.wi.əm/a mass (= a Christian ceremony) at which people honour and pray for a dead person:a requiem massDefinition from the Cambridge Dictionary Always one of those words where I wasn't quite sure of the meaning! Knowing the meaning now makes me understand the book title (although I think the US title The Breaking Wave works even better & doesn't give away an important part of the story)I was lucky enough to go into this story almost completely

I keep coming back to Nevil Shute. I have yet to read a book of his I haven't liked. They are "old-fashioned", the dialogue is so different from modern speech, yet that's what makes his books so interesting. They transport one back several decades to a whole other place and time. Most of the ones I have read take place in or around WWII, as did this one. It tells the story of a young Wren, a female soldier, who never quite found her footing after the war ended. She was wracked in grief by an

Another great novel by Shute. The only thing I didn't like was the ending, you got the feeling that you knew this was coming the whole time but hoped it happened in a more convenient way than it did. Chapter 10 felt like it was written in a bit of a hurry! But nonetheless, an excellent & emotional book to read!

This is my second Nevil Shute book and twice in a row, I have fallen in love with his superb love stories and totally awesome strong women. Also, it became one of those very few books which I finished in flat 48 hours, talking about gripping stories, this was one of the best based around second world war and its repercussions on a family. Also the story of two brothers took me back in time couple of years and made me miss my own little brother who will go to any extent just to make one evening I