Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse “You can call a sunset by a filthy name, but you do not spoil its beauty, monsieur.Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. “Then the patience borne of seventy years of disappointments came to his aid ” I even had renewed enthusiasm for another round of Home Base Learning…but that ended by about noon on the first day. It was the idea of such kindness and compassion in extenuating circumstance that inspired me to wake up from feeling malaise. And he still believed that even having experienced war himself. It is ordinary people that accomplish the extraordinary. It is Shute’s perspective that change can be affected by one person with unsung qualities of patience, kindness, and determination. We saw this recently in Afghanistan with mothers sending their children over the airport fence. This is why the parents were willing to send their children along with this gentleman stranger. Yet in this tale, everyone seems to agree that children should be spared, as much as possible, the cost of war. We are familiar with harrowing war narratives of that make victims of all. I found this to be a strangely new perspective. Every person the protagonist meets wants to help, despite it going against their individual need of survival.
What I love about the story, was the care of the children. But fear not the ‘Grimm’ ending Shute’s own tales promise integrity, if not happily ever after. For those who grew up on fairy tales, we know where the story is heading he is the Pied Piper the children follow.
This is made complicated still when he is asked to take back with him two children – circumstance preventing the parents to accompany their children themselves. When the political situation suddenly turns, he is forced to make the arduous journey back home to England. Too old to participate in the oncoming WWII, and with no familiar duties at home, he goes off to France for a fishing holiday. The gentlemanly character who lives by the old code is once again the protagonist.
This is my fourth title by Shute, and he did not disappoint. Yet, this is the book that made me want to limit Netflix and start reading and writing again. The pandemic induced ‘reset’ has worn off I have decluttered, re-prioritized, and found new intent – but now the very same restrictive conditions which helped with the mental shift, seem like a holding cell. I have mentioned before that this year has felt a bit lacklustre in terms of reading, writing, and well…life in general.
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