Difficult to know whether to review the book, or the Kindle version! So it is 5 stars for the book but would be 3 stars for this version. £6.40 is, IMHO, too much for a book written by an author who has been dead for 50 years and it has text to speech disabled which, bearing in mind the likely age of readers, is just dumb. Let's hope the money is at least going to Mr Norway's family and not just greedy publishers!
As to the book it is the usual wonderfully well told Nevil Shute story, amusing particularly that it deals with what to Nevil Norway the aircraft engineer, designer and aviation company owner must have been the perfect religion!
Full of what today would be very non PC terms and views it very much reflects the society (and Britain's place in it) of the time and ideas that, at that time, would have been very radical i.e. the very idea that asian engineers could be just as good as Brits and even the possibility that an Englishman might marry a girl of mixed race. Despite that it has messages that are every bit as relevent today - particularly that of different religions having common ground instead of cause for hatred.
"I doubt anyone will be reading my books in 50 years" Nevil Shute once said. I'm very glad to prove him completely wrong on that one point!
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