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Ruined City is undoubtedly one of the best of all Nevil Shute's works, an example of individual "can do" on a grand scale. It is a story of high (and low) finance, of venal Balkan politicians and greedy English vicars, of the salvation of a city on the brink of extinction.
Plot summary. The story is set in the Depression years of the 1930s, when a rich London financier, Henry Warren, suffering from health problems and a broken marriage, decides to disappear from his old life, and travel incognito in the industrial North, now plagued with unemployment.
Published 1938. Setting: Early 1930s. Story: A workaholic City Banker depressed by an unfaithful wife abandons the city and suffers amnesia. He recovers in a small hospital in a strike-ridden town in the North East.
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4.07. 1,013 ratings115 reviews. When Henry Warren, director of an English bank, lands by chance in a hospital in a bleak Northern town that has been ruined by the closure of its shipyard, he discovers nothing less than a new purpose for his life.
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When successful banker Henry Warren arrives in the city, only to be taken ill and confined to hospital he learns of the plight of the community and sees the locals dying for no apparent reason....
