![]() Hornblower is the fifth and most junior lieutenant. William Bush, who becomes Hornblower's faithful companion and best friend, is introduced boarding HMS Renown as the third lieutenant. This unusual narrative perspective also allows Forester to sustain a mystery, advanced hint by hint in the course of the novel, about how Captain Sawyer came to be injured-an event possibly witnessed by Hornblower. This helped Forester to explain Hornblower's unsuitable first marriage besides giving an objective view of Hornblower himself. The book is unique in the series in being told not from Horatio Hornblower's point of view, but rather from Bush's. It is the second book in the series chronologically, but the seventh by order of publication. ![]() Lieutenant Hornblower (published 1952) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. ![]()
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