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Trustee from the Toolroom (Large Print Edition) [Large Print] (Hardcover)

by Nevil Shute (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print; Large Print edition edition (Mar 1985)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0708982506
  • ISBN-13: 978-0708982501
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,913,498 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A novel tells the story of a man who leads an ordinary, uneventful life, until overnight he becomes the trustee of his 10-year-old niece, and involved in the search for some missing money. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Nevil Shute Norway worked as an aeronautical engineer at Vickers before setting up his own airship company. He served in both world wars and was a commander in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in World War II, working on secret projects. He flew his own aircraft to Australia to research On the Beach, before settling there permanently. His books are based on his own wartime and aircraft industry experiences. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Words to Live By, 6 Jan 2001
By A. Ross (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trustee from the Toolroom (Paperback)
This was Neville Shute's final novel, and perhaps derives much of its mood due to this. Best known for the depressing nuclear holocaust story On the Beach, Shute wrote this as a celebration of the simple pleasures in life. The protagonist Keith is an unassuming, married, but childless, middle-aged man living in suburban London (Ealing) with his working wife. He has forsaken a more lucrative engineering career in order to pursue his love of miniature modeling and a very meager income as a columnist for "Miniature Mechanic" magazine. When his sister and brother-in-law die in a shipwreck near Tahiti, he becomes the guardian and trustee for his 10-year-old niece. Next thing you know, Keith, who has never left the country, has to find a way to make his way to a remote Pacific island to recover a box of diamonds that was on the wreck. Shute writes convincingly of the things nautical and engineering Keith encounters on his adventure. Along the way he is aided by a somewhat improbable number of people who know him from his reputation in he world of miniature mechanics. It teeters on being trite and corny, but ultimately works as a celebration of karma. Keith has been a good, selfless man, and so other good, selfless men are willing to help him--and he ends up doing what he loves. At the end of his life, Shute returned to this basic message on how to live and love life, and it works.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite book of all time!, 9 Mar 2009
By Bridget Keogh (Farnham, Surrey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trustee from the Toolroom (Paperback)
Timeless classic about an extrondinary journey taken by a very ordinary man. Not one of Nevil Shute's more well known novels, but underated in my opinion.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars 'Keith Stewart' = FJ Camm?, 15 Jun 2003
By A. Reynolds "adrian_j_r" (Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trustee from the Toolroom (Paperback)
After reading 'Trustee' I had wondered wether Shute had modelled (excuse the pun) the story's hero on the late Frederick Camm - another unassuming technically minded man who wrote on many subjects for many publications (and was known world-wide).

The story itself is well written - like nearly all of Shute's works - but stretches the credulity somewhat in places. The character of Keith Stewart, though believable, is rather too 'stiff-upper-lip' to be totally likeable.

Nevertheless, it is an enjoyable read and rounds out the Shute oeuvre.

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