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A Town Like Alice

Nevil Shute

Paperback | Pages: 359 pages

Rating: 4.14 | 47720 Users | 3359 Reviews

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Title	:	A Town Like Alice
Author	:	Nevil Shute
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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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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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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I couldn't tell you why I have resisted reading "A Town Like Alice" for so many years. But I did. Perhaps it is for the best whatever time it is we chose to land a particular book in our hands.When I began to read Shute's book, I quickly fell into it. Noel Strachan is perhaps one of the most charming narrators I've encountered. Shute's use of the aging British Solicitor to unveil the story of Jean Paget drew me into the tale. It was a simple enough matter. Strachan was hired to write the will

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.

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

Solicitor Noel Strachan tells the story of a young English woman for whom he is trustee. Her uncle left a significant estate, but felt it should remain in trust until her 35th birthday. Jean Paget was born in 1921 in Malaya when her father was employed there after World War I; however she returned to Southampton in 1932 to finish her education. When the elderly uncle dies in 1948, Strachan manages to track her down and over the course of several afternoon teas begins to get to know this

My first read by this author and it definitely won't be my last. Felt like this was two stories held together by the indefatiable Jean Paget, she certainly is a wonderful, well written character. Loved out narrator Noel, the older, gentlemanly London soliciter who administers the estate left to Jean from an uncle she little remembers. There are no gimmicks here, just some good, old fashioned story telling with the added bonus of one learning quite a bit about Malaya, though the events here were

When the opening sentence in a book includes the words "he was riding in the Driffield point-to-point" I can say my interest was piqued! Driffield is about 20 miles from where I live and I know it well. So I started this one with a smile and wondered where we were going...We went a long long way from that small Yorkshire town.. Jean Paget our main protagonist was working in Malaya at the time the Japanese arrived during WW2 . The Japanese army took many prisoners including Jean and 31 other

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