Ruined City - Nevil Shute
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Adults, Literature
Ruined City By: Nevil Shute Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 16-03-2013 Language: English Publisher: Audible Studios, Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of its shipyard. Moved by the fate of the towns inhabitants, Warren risks his fortune and reputation to save the shipyard and restore the town to its former prosperity. In seeking to change the fate of the town, he radically changes his own., Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 - 12 January 1960) was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons, but after the conflict he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his deat
