Teasdale realizes that age doesn’t favour her and she cannot readily alter her lifestyle to suit the requirement. Sadly he is quite lost and does not readily spot the game that is afoot.

He is able to win the affections of two beautiful ladies who openly admire his daughter, Elspeth and explore the possibility of linking their fortune to him. His moment of action comes when he damages an aircraft suspected to carry the defect.

His lifestyle makes it sound more dubious as he seriously believes in ideas like the world would come to an end.explores the possibilities of finding ghosts and even thinks that, in future, it is well possible and feasible that planchette and the related art of ‘automatic writing’ could become a reality. Unfortunately due to some experiments and pure theory making, Honey rather ineffectively postulates a grave safety hazard. Well the tale is interesting enough transatlantic flights have become popular and the British for once have taken a lead by introducing a state of aircraft named Reindeer. Someone who is forgetful and fails to make a strong impression on the people he meets. Someone who has a rather precocious daughter (but does not quite seem to know how to harness it). Someone who has lost his young wife during the war and aged on account of it. In Honey we have a perfect underdog to root for – a brilliant but socially inept scientist. It was a battle against the terrain and the conventional mindset. Sometime during the 1940s is when the action takes place and we need to imagine of a time when the famous Blackbox didn’t even exist and investigation into air crashes were difficult to conduct. But Nevil Shute made a rare success of the novel and it was even made into a film. So it is not easy for any writer to generate enthusiasm among the readers for the same even if he introduces human drama into it. Embed from Getty ImagesĪircraft accidents and the technical theory behind them is a dry and technical subject.

He even attracts the attractions and amours of two beautiful ladies – the ageing actress, Monica Teasdale, and the young conscientious air hostess, Marjorie Corder. Scott who is passionate about ensuring customer safety.But undoubtedly it is Honey,the ultimate underdog blessed with a precocious daughter, who is the hero. It documents the travails of an eccentric and socially inept scientist who struggles to convince his peers that the newly launched aircraft, popularly known as the ‘Reindeer’ are not safe and could crash dramatically in a matter of minutes on account of destruction of the ‘Tail Wing’ that balances the aircraft. That seems to be at the heart of Nevil Shute’s novel, ‘No Highway’. First impression is the best impression and appearances do matter.

No Highway by Nevil Shute