5/27/2023 0 Comments Trustee from the toolroom review![]() ![]() Keith’s main interest is making engineering models, and he makes and writes about these in the magazine ‘ Miniature Mechanic’, for which he is not paid a great deal. Katie works in a draper’s shop, and her income, combined with the rent of the top two floors of their house, and Keith’s writing, enables them to live sufficiently. Keith is not prepossessing – shortish, rather fat, not at all ambitious even his sister feels he needs to be told what to do – and when we meet him he is living contentedly, though in straitened circumstances, in Ealing, west London, with his wife, Katie. Keith Stewart, protagonist of Trustee from the Toolroom, is one of Shute’s ordinary men who become heroic through adverse circumstances and personal determination. ![]()
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