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Mar 22, 1910 — Aug 8, 1979· 69 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · FICTION · GENERAL

Nicholas Monsarrat

Also known as: Nicholas MONSARRAT, NICHOLAS MONSARRAT

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Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Something to Hide

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Petra's romantic life has always been a car-crash, and even in her sixties she's still capable of getting it disastrously wrong. But then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The fatal catch? Jeremy is her best friend's husband. But just as Petra is beginning to relax into her happy ever after, she finds herself catapulted to West Africa, and to Bev, her best friend who she's been betraying so spectacularly. Meanwhile, on opposite sides of the world, two other women are also struggling with the weight of betrayal: Texan Lorrie is about embark on the biggest deception of her life, and in China Li-Jing is trying to understand exactly what it is her husband does on his West African business trips ... It turns out that no matter where you are in the world, everyone has something to hide. Can Bev - can anyone - be trusted?

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The cruel sea

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The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. It contains seven chapters, each describing a year during the war. The novel, based on the author's experience of serving in corvettes in the North Atlantic in World War II, gives a matter-of-fact but moving portrayal of ordinary men learning to fight and survive in a violent, exhausting battle against the elements and a ruthless enemy. Few books have ever conveyed in such gripping detail the brutal destruction of the Battle of the Atlantic and the endurance of the men who fought it. The novel brought instant fame to its author.

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Reader's Digest Condensed Books

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THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN by Ian Fleming THE VINE AND THE OLIVE by Margaret Culkin Banning THE SOURCE by James Michener GEORDIE by David Walker THE CENTURY OF THE DETECTIVE (Condensed from The Marks of Cain, Dead Men Tell Tales, and Proof of Poison) by Jürgen Thorwald

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