Lieutenant-Commander, the hero of this novel, is axed from the Navy
at the age of thirty-six, one of many thousands obliged to re-plan
their lives as the result of cuts in the armed services. A widower
with a small daughter, he has no experience or knowledge outside
submarines and the Royal Navy. His whole life had been that of a
sailor since he joined up direct from school at the beginning of
the war. This is not only the story of his struggles and adventures
when he tries to find some way of earning his living; it is the
story of his difficulty in adjusting himself to an unfamiliar
civilian world. Monica Dickens's novel is the story of all such men
in any of the services who find themselves so rudely thrust into
the ordinary life of their country which, though they have served
unselfishly, they find they are ill-equipped to live in. Written
with the lighter humorous touch of some of her earlier books, it is
a sympathetic presentation of the human side of one of those mass
adjustments forced on society by the changing nature of the world
and its affairs. Man Overboard was first published in 1958.
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