What Happened To The Corbetts/Pastoral: Nevil ShuteWhat Happened To The Corbetts: A surprise aerial bombing of twenty cities, the first of many attacks, occurs in England. Young solicitor Peter Corbett, wife Joan, and their small three children leave Southampton after their home and Corbett's offices are damaged, friends are killed and a cholera epidemic breaks out after disruptions to the water and power supplies. They move aboard their small yacht, kept on the river Hamble, but as disease spreads