Requiem for a Wren / by Nevil Shute.

By: Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960Material type: TextTextPublication details: Long Preston : Dales Large Print Books, 2008Edition: Large print edDescription: 414 p. (large print) ; 22 cmISBN: 9781842626566 (pbk.); 1842626566 (pbk.)Subject(s): Bereavement -- Psychological aspects -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. DDC classification: 823.912 Summary: Wounded and embittered, RAF flyer Alan Duncan comes home to the ancestral manor in Australia seeking peace and solace after the ravages of war - but tragedy welcomes him. For the night before his arrival, the family parlour maid, Jessie Proctor, had committed suicide. In a determined quest to find the reason why, Alan comes across her photograph - and in a devastating shock of recognition, one woman's death triggers a lifetime of powerful, haunting memories.
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Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1955.

Formerly CIP. Uk.

Wounded and embittered, RAF flyer Alan Duncan comes home to the ancestral manor in Australia seeking peace and solace after the ravages of war - but tragedy welcomes him. For the night before his arrival, the family parlour maid, Jessie Proctor, had committed suicide. In a determined quest to find the reason why, Alan comes across her photograph - and in a devastating shock of recognition, one woman's death triggers a lifetime of powerful, haunting memories.

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