A town like Alice: Nevil Shute (Macmillan Collector’s Library) - Hardcover

Shute, Nevil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509834818 ISBN 13: 9781509834815

Verlag: Collector´s Library, 2018

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A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist, Jenny Colgan.

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.

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‘That’s what I want to have,’ she said. ‘A town like Alice.’

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Jean Paget is one of a group of women and children forced on a brutal march through the Malayan jungle by the Japanese army during World War II. After the war, Jean cannot forget the many people who helped her, including Australian soldier Joe Harman who she thought had been left for dead. Back in Malaya she learns surprising news about Joe, and travels on to Australia in search of lost love. And there, in the Australian outback, she’s inspired to build a thriving new community.

Inspired by a true story, A Town Like Alice is a celebration of one woman’s incredible strength in the face of adversity.

With an afterword by bestselling novelist Jenny Colgan.

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• Verlag: Collector´s Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1509834818
• ISBN 13: 9781509834815
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1