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Original Title: A Town Like Alice
ISBN: 1842323008 (ISBN13: 9781842323007)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Jean Paget, Joe Harman
Setting: Alice Springs, Northwest Territory,1948(Australia) Australia Malacca, Malaya …more Malaysia …less
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A Town Like Alice Paperback | Pages: 359 pages
Rating: 4.14 | 47720 Users | 3359 Reviews

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Nevil Shute's 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 inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. Jean's travels leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.

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Title:A Town Like Alice
Author:Nevil Shute
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 359 pages
Published:2000 by House of Stratus (first published 1950)
Categories:Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Australia. Romance. War

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At midnight on the night of December 8, 1941 men from the 8th Indian brigade stationed in northeastern Malaya came under heavy Japanese bombardment and by December 12 two beachheads and key airport had fallen to the Japanese. With astonishing speed, across jungles the British had wrongly assumed were impenetrable, the Japanese advanced down the Malay peninsula, pushing the British south until, on February 15, 1942, the British were forced to surrender the key southern port city of Singapore to

This is a very hard book to categorize or review. I read it almost 2 weeks ago, and have been trying to figure out how to convey it's essence. I won't be able to, but here goes:A Town Like Alice starts off fairly dry, with a narrative by an old English attorney (who will continue to be the narrator of the story). He sets up the premise of why young Jean Paget, our heroine, comes to receive an inheritance. It's the early 1950's, and the old attorney and Jean form a friendship due to the fact that

I am now posting a full review of this wonderful novel.This book has to be one of the great love stories of all time. It is based on true events which happened in Sumatra during WW2 when a group of European women were forced by the Japanese to march for thousands of miles. This is one of Nevil Shutes best loved novels and one which I read as a teenager. I admired Nevil Shutes writing and his close association with aviation. He was a practical man with imagination and wrote about what he knew

Nevil Shute's sweeping novel sees privileged Englishwoman, Jean Paget, upended from her expat life in colonial Malaya by the invading Japanese, in WWII.Paget somehow survives the brutality of an enforced death march through a jungle peninsula and eschews the home comforts of post-war England for altruistic work in far-flung climes (Malaya and the Australian outback).This is a compelling read, despite it seeming a bit dated now, and Shute can be commended for creating a modern, ballsy female

Oh, what a lovely book. It's funny, sometimes sad but always inspiring and never insipid.And Miss Jean Paget, the main character, is irresistible.Congratulations to that gifted writer, Mr. Nevil Shute (1899-1960).And now, where is my copy of "East of Eden"? Oh, it's over there! Here we go, C.R.

This is an excellent book about what perseverance and vision can accomplish but most of all it's two love stories - the one between the two main characters of the story and the one in the mere telling of the story.

This month's bookclub pick, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, starts in England with an aging attorney setting up a trust. Most of the story follows Jean Paget, who spent most of World War II in Malaya as a prisoner of the Japanese. The journey after the war is the best part. It's a slow journey to get there, but paid off. Warning - there are some racist comments in here that seem a bit harsh even in 1950.