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Title: For Shute completists only
Review: I was fortunate enough to find a copy of this in my library. Had I spent $50 on it, I might have cried. This is not a novel, but a screenplay that Shute wrote to flesh out the Scandinavian backstory of his novel "An Old Captivity". It's impossible to say how it may have fared had it been filmed, but on paper it comes across as one of his weaker attempts. If you've read "An Old Captivity" there really is no reason to read this. If you have yet to read "An Old Captivity", you should defintely seek it out as Shute never wrote another novel like it.
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