In the Wet

OK let's do the politics first. I have read reviews from people who can't get past Nevil Shute's politics, and if you are a reader who wants to apply a twenty-first century political sensibility to a novel written more than sixty years ago there's plenty to get hot under the collar about. And if it'......more

I must admit, I am right in the middle of my Nevil Shute obsession and 'In the wet' is the seventh book I have read of his in the last three months. Like all the others, it is so well written, within the first few chapters, Shute gets you hooked in and before you've realised it, you can't put it down......more

'In the Wet' has an unusual plot. It is part set in the Australian Outback, 1950s, and written from the point of view of a Church of England priest. A dying alcoholic tells him a story of his life - except that his life is in the future, maybe a future life. It is a story of involvement in high affa......more

this book in some part is slightly dated with some of the language but however in some parts its quite forward thinking as its a mixture of the present 1953 and a story of a man's future story with the political change/system and fast aircraft.......more