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

Requiem for a Wren

Nevil Shute

Paperback | Pages: 285 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 1667 Users | 179 Reviews

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

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This is my second Nevil Shute book and twice in a row, I have fallen in love with his superb love stories and totally awesome strong women. Also, it became one of those very few books which I finished in flat 48 hours, talking about gripping stories, this was one of the best based around second world war and its repercussions on a family. Also the story of two brothers took me back in time couple of years and made me miss my own little brother who will go to any extent just to make one evening I

Requiem For A Wren by Nevil Shute Shute reveals the end at the beginning, but only part of it, the devastating part. A young woman's suicide that seemingly has no rhyme or reason starts the returning home Aussie pilot on a journey through his past. The attention to detail is fantastic and the reader learns much about the nitty gritty of maintaining the gunnery parts of British WWII ships. I had no idea that there was such a thing as Ordinance Wrens in the War. They were an integral part of the

Tgis was my first book from Shute, but browsing the reviews I saw he is quite popular. My first impression of this novel was that it's a crime story. Though it is not, it's a war book and I've read quite some of thos, but this is the first one where leading character fighting in war is a woman. The story is simple about two brothers, Australians, who are very fond of each other. Requiem for a Wren starts from the end of story, when Alan is after long years coming back to Coombargana in Australia

I'm trying to guess how many books I've read which in one way or another are about the Second World War. I've read a couple just in the last month, Wilcox's Japan's Secret War and Linebarger's Psychological Warfare . As usual, I was gripped by two contradictory emotions: horror and fascination. I think most people have a similar reaction. The war was monstrous and appalling, but it was also the most exciting, extraordinary period in human history. New techniques, new ideas, new ways of

Re-reading is something I avoid, along with watching movies or TV shows a second time. Life's too short for repeats...well, in most cases. This is such a poignant, human novel that it almost demands re-reading. Shute's writing is exactly my cup of tea. There's always a cracking story and the life - and death - of Leading Wren Janet Prentice is a heart-breaker. With D-Day and the aftermath of WW2 as a back-drop Shute's in his real comfort zone. If you think the descriptions of the build-up to the

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

4.5★requiemnoun [ C ] UK /ˈrek.wi.əm/ US /ˈrek.wi.əm/a mass (= a Christian ceremony) at which people honour and pray for a dead person:a requiem massDefinition from the Cambridge Dictionary Always one of those words where I wasn't quite sure of the meaning! Knowing the meaning now makes me understand the book title (although I think the US title The Breaking Wave works even better & doesn't give away an important part of the story)I was lucky enough to go into this story almost completely