The Breaking Wave

by Nevil Shute
Category: "Fiction - General"
Pages:282
Year of Publication:1955
Date Read:11/17/1992
Notes:Also published as Requiem for a Wave

One of Shute's darkest books; Alan Duncan flew in the R.A.F., then returned to his ancestral home on an Australian sheep ranch, wounded and disilllusioned by his experiences. There he must confront of mystery: why Jessie Proctor, a housekeeper on the station, took her life days before his return. He finds her diaries, reads them, and gradually discovers her secret sadness.
My Rating: 6

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