A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

A Town Like Alice by Nevil ShuteNevil Shutes most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected

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