Review by Brian Lowen on 26th March on bookshow
A lovely, lovely story – the sort my wife likes as there are no nasty people in it!
Keith Stewart is a writer for a model engineering magazine. A humble man with a big heart.
When his sister and brother-in-law sail off in their yacht across the world to start a new life in Vancouver, Keith and his wife agree to look after their young daughter, Janice.
A hurricane wrecks their boat on a reef on a remote pacific island and they are drowned.
Keith helped hide an illegal horde of diamonds in the concrete ballast of the boat. This was their life savings with which they hoped to start a new life in Canada and was during the time when it was illegal to take large sums of money out of the country.
Keith decides to set off alone to recover the diamonds so that he can afford to be Janice’s trustee, to give her a proper upbringing and a good start in life. He is surprised to find that his fame has spread throughout the world of model engineers by the articles and serials he writes for the magazine “Miniature Mechanics” and they help him achieve his goal.
I’m sure the book is based around the magazine “Model Engineer” – a weekly magazine that I used to take before giving it up as it was really too technical for me. The story fits so well with this publication. I would call myself a model builder rather than a model engineer.
The story is set in the early fifties before the days of GPS, mobile phone, faxes, Emails, etc, and reminded me of my youth, when messages were sent around the world by cablegram and person-to-person long distance telephone calls.
I was bound to enjoy this book, dealing with models and yachts, but it can be enjoyed by anyone who enjoys a well written, pleasantly paced, thoroughly enjoyable tale, with a happy ending.
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