Shute Nevil. Stephen Morris. Two stories

Vintage, 2009. Stephen Morris (written 1923- published 1961) and Pilotage (written 1924- published 1961)The two stories in Stephen Morris, "Stephen Morris" and "Pilotage", were some of Shute's earliest works (1923-24) and were published the year after he died. "Stephen Morris" is semi-autobiographical, and tells of a young engineer just out of Oxford who works for a struggling aircraft builder and who proposes to the girl of his dreams. "Pilotage" continues Stephen Morris's story, but shifts to Peter Dennison, Morris' navigator on a flying boat testing the feasibility of airmail service between London and New York. No such service existed at the time Shute wrote the story.