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Ruined City

Nevil Shute

Start date: October 15, 2015

Finish date: November 15, 2015

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Dec 09, 2016 Karen rated it really liked it

After reading On the Beach, I thought I would try to read more of Nevil Shute, and I was very glad I picked up Ruined City (which has been re-titled Kindling) in a second hand shop.
Both of these books have universal themes and are quite relevant.
Main character Henry Warren, a wealthy banker sees closeup what the Depression has done to a Northern England coastal town. A once thriving shipbuilding town is now filled with unemployed men, half-starving children, and a shipyard that is slowly disin ...more

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