Forgive me, I forgot a major incident of philandering and I'm going to have to walk my promise back: there is more philandering in the next book. After Lord I do believe you'll have seen the last of it, but... I'm sorry to say there is definitely philandering in Lord. :-(
Ah, yes, if you were confused about the UK ending, then of course it would be unsatisfying. For myself, I really like the unreliable narration of it, where tone-deaf Hornblower is hallucinating music and cannot correctly parse Brown's reaction. And of course the whole plague-ship ruse earlier in the book is meant to be foreshadowing/setup for why Hornblower bringing typhus back to the ship would be an unthinkable disaster -- Bush is about to discover he has a major crisis on his hands.
But if some readers were missing all that, then yes, I can see why the US editors wanted another chapter.
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Ah, yes, if you were confused about the UK ending, then of course it would be unsatisfying. For myself, I really like the unreliable narration of it, where tone-deaf Hornblower is hallucinating music and cannot correctly parse Brown's reaction. And of course the whole plague-ship ruse earlier in the book is meant to be foreshadowing/setup for why Hornblower bringing typhus back to the ship would be an unthinkable disaster -- Bush is about to discover he has a major crisis on his hands.
But if some readers were missing all that, then yes, I can see why the US editors wanted another chapter.