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A Town Like Alice
Classic fiction
A Town Like Alice
359 pages · First published 1950
During World War II, Englishwoman Jean Paget is among a group of women and children forced by Japanese occupiers to march across Malaya in search of a camp willing to take them. Years later, an inheritance allows Jean to return to the village that once helped the prisoners and to search for Australian prisoner Joe Harman, whose wartime sacrifice she has never forgotten. Their stories eventually connect Malaya with the Australian outback and Jean’s ambitious plan to transform an isolated settlement. Nevil Shute combines wartime survival, romance, and postwar reconstruction in a novel about endurance and the practical work of creating a place worth coming home to.
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