Shute Nevil. The Chequer Board

London: Pan, 1969. - 278 c.
The novel was first published in 1947.
Scan 600 dpi.John Turner, a little man, learns he will die of a head wound suffered during the war. He accepts this, but decides to do something good in his remaining time. He decides to visit three men he met in his hospital ward. They were each in trouble when he met them, and now he sets out to find how each has chosen his life and settled his problems.