A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice

Author: Nevil Shute

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library

ISBN: 1509834818

Category: Fiction

Page: 368

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Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in Malaya during World War Two. She is forced on a brutal march across the country with a group of women and children. During this appalling ordeal she befriends Joe Harman, an Australian soldier who risks his own life to help the women. A few years later, and back in England, Jean receives an unexpected and substantial inheritance. She decides to use the money to repay the Malayan people who risked their lives to help her and her fellow prisoners during the war so she travels back to the village where they stayed. From there she travels on to Australia in search of lost love. Cut off in the Australian outback and thousands of miles from home, Jean once again draws on her admirable determination and entrepreneurial spirit when she sets out to build a thriving community.A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
A Town Like Alice
Language: en
Pages: 368

A Town Like Alice

Authors: Nevil Shute
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-13 - Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library

Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in Malaya during World War Two. She is forced on a brutal march across the country with a group of women and children. During this appalling ordeal she befriends Joe Harman, an Australian soldier who risks his own
A Town Like Alice
Language: en
Pages: 368

A Town Like Alice

Authors: Nevil Shute
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-26 - Publisher: Random House

'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language... remarkable' Guardian Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group
A Town Like Alice
Language: en
Pages: 308

A Town Like Alice

Authors: Nevil Shute Norway
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-01 - Publisher: DigiCat

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute Norway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as
A Study Guide for Nevil Shute's
Language: en
Pages: 29

A Study Guide for Nevil Shute's "A Town Like Alice"

Authors: Gale, Cengage Learning
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-29 - Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

A Study Guide for Nevil Shute's "A Town Like Alice," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of
A Town Like Alice
Language: en
Pages: 95

A Town Like Alice

Authors: Nevil Shute
Categories: Australia
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-01 - Publisher:

1940, Malaya. The war is on. A group of women and children are captured by the Japanese. This is the story of their long march through Malaya and a search for love that ends in Australia.