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

Requiem for a Wren

Nevil Shute

Paperback | Pages: 285 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 1667 Users | 179 Reviews

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Title	:	Requiem for a Wren
Author	:	Nevil Shute
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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

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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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A wonderful depiction of what it's like to live through a time of great danger and excitement, and to find meaning for yourself in that experience. But then that time ends, and life goes on, and it is so very difficult to be unimportant, and not very good at anything in particular. Shute somehow balances this and keeps interest throughout in our lead character, whether she's excelling herself or hiding away, unable to face the world any more. She never seems less than real. I cried for her.

The convoluted narrative structure didn't do the tale any favors here, and it often made no logical sense. (How could the narrator have known the Wren never spoke of X or had a sleepless night, when none of his informants or the diary told him so?) In a sense, it's a tale of a female British WW II combatant suffering from PTSD...and of the men who loved her. But as with Pied Piper, Shutes seems to be hanging on to a Victorian novel structure, with a framing narrative device that isn't necessary.

This is such a good book. Nevil Shute has never disappointed me.

The "wren" in the books title refers to those enlisted in the women's branch of the UK's Royal Navy Service. A requiem is the religious ceremony performed for the dead. It can be more loosely referred to as an act or token of remembrance for a deceased, and so Requiem for a Wren is to be interpreted as a token of remembrance for the fictional character, Wren Janet Prentice. This is a book of historical fiction set primarily in England, France and Australia and about operation Overlord, the

This is such a good book. Nevil Shute has never disappointed me.

The thing that keeps me coming back to Shute--and has made him one of my favorites--is his wonderful leading female characters. They're all different enough to make them worth reading, but still similar--smart, sensible, sturdy...in short, plucky. From Moira Davidson facing the end of the world (On the Beach) to Jean Paget on a Malaysian death march (A Town Like Alice) they're the kind of girls that can get through anything, and they do it in the way that I would hope that I would, were I in

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