I Know the Word O'Brian Would Use Once
In Reference to This Situation

Publishers Lunch finds a dispatch in The Age concerning an unfinished Patrick O'Brian manuscript, three chapters of what might have been a 21st Aubrey-Maturin novel that will be published in the U.K. and the U.S. over the objections of his grandchildren. who feel releasing the "crude and unfinished" work would be a "travesty" of which the notoriously meticulous author would never have approved.