What Happened to the Corbetts

Author: Shute, Nevil

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 3 September 2009 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton that destroys the city's infrastructure and leaves the inhabitants at the mercy of cholera and further assaults. The story follows the trials and tribulations of the Corbett family as they try to get to safety.