Round the Bend (novel) Round the Bend (novel) Round the Bend is a 1951 novel by Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Constantine "Connie" Shaklin, an aircraft engineer who founds a new religion transcending existing religions based on the merit of good work. It deals with racism, including the White Australia policy, and also with the importance of private enterprise. It was one of the first novels Shute wrote after emigrating from Britain to Australia in 1950. The novel, written in the first person, adopts the voice and eyes of Tom Cutter, an aircraft pilot, engineer, and entrepreneur. The novel starts with Cutter's
Alice Elinor Lambert Like That", she describes a young girl who refuses an artist's proposal and later regrets her decision. Specifically, the main character, Miss Juliet Delany, remembers, Reports are conflicting about whether or not Lambert ever married. David Silcox and Harold Town wrote that she never married, while Roy MacGregor wrote that she married a man and had two daughters with him. She died in Marysville, Washington in 1981 at the age of 95. Alice Elinor Lambert Alice Elinor Lambert (1886–1981) was an American romance writer. Lambert was born in Corvallis, Oregon in 1886. Her father, Charles Edward Lambert, was born in