Most Secret

Praise

“A magnificent thrill; it is also a tale of character, for every member of the little ship’s company is worth meeting. A book that should not be missed.” —Daily Telegraph
 
“No other writer has brought to fiction of this type quite the same lively sympathy and warmth of imagination or left so engaging an impression of truthfulness. . . . Shute [has] the power to convey the springs of heroic conduct in the lightest and least assuming of tones.” —Times Literary Supplement (London)
 
“A novelist of intelligent and engaging quality, deservedly popular…. Nevil Shute was, in brief, the sort of novelist who genuinely touches the imagination and feeling.” —The Times (London)