In the original dustsheet. Blue board binding with red title plate and silver title on the spine.

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Pastoral is a novel by the English author Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1944 by Heinemann. Its theme is that even during war, and among warriors, everyday life, such as romance, will continue. Pastoral is a romance set on an
English airbase which revolves around the pilot and crew of a Vickers Wellington bomber, their interest in fishing, and the pilot’s developing relationship with a young WAAF signals officer. After its release the book received reviews from The Washington Post and The New York Times, the latter of which wrote that the book was ‘an excellent story and its writer grows in subtlety and skill with each succeeding novel’.

Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers (Vickers) or from fellow engineers that he was ‘not a serious person’ or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.