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Trustee from the toolroom review5/28/2023 ![]() 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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