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No Highway

Nevil Shute (1948)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG
Pages (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age13
Goodreads4.01

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

Trigger warnings

DeathAnxiety

Heroine archetypes

Actress / Performer

Protagonist archetypes

Fish out of Water

Tropes

Not yet tagged

Synopsis

Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous engineer whose eccentric interests are frowned upon in aviation circles. When a passenger plane crashes in Newfoundland under unexplained circumstances, Honey is determined to prove his unorthodox theory about what went wrong to his superiors, before more lives are lost. But while flying to the crash scene to investigate, Honey discovers to his horror that he is on board one of the defective planes and that he and his fellow passengers, including a friendly young stewardess and an aging movie actress, are in imminent peril.

Is No Highway appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 13 and up.

This is a suspense thriller about an aviation engineer racing to prove a fatal design flaw. Contains peril and plane crash references but no graphic content or strong language.

What to know going in

This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include death and anxiety.

Publisher age: Adult·Our content rating: 13+

Publisher ages reflect reading level; our rating reflects content maturity — they can differ.

Who'll love this

Readers who love suspenseful stories about unsung heroes proving they're right will be riveted by this race-against-time thriller.

Tags

ThrillerAviation FictionSuspenseMid-Century Fiction