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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 |
Nevil Shute
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 | : | 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 |
Rating Appertaining To Books A Town Like Alice
Ratings: 4.14 From 47720 Users | 3359 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books A Town Like Alice
What Nevil Shute may lack in eloquence he makes up for by providing the particulars that bring to life a distant place and time. This is a love story, but not a romance. There's no sex, no sappiness, no gasping or google eyes. Just a lot of hardship, hard work, and, most notably, hope. Jean Paget and Joe Harman meet in Malaya during World War II. She is British, he Australian, and both are prisoners of the Japanese. Joe sacrifices all to provide a little food for Jean's bedraggled group of womenI 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
I suppose it is because I have lived rather a restricted life myself that I have found so much enjoyment in remembering what I have learned in these last years about brave people and strange scenes. I have sat here day after day this winter, sleeping a good deal in my chair, hardly knowing if I was in London or the Gulf country, dreaming of the blazing sunshine, of poddy-dodging and black stockmen, of Cairns and of Green Island. Of a girl that I met forty years too late, and of her life in that
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.
One of the best "make lemonade out of lemons" books I've read. Warm, witty, real. Told by Noel Strachan, an aging solicitor who is the trustee of Jean's estate, this story unfolds quietly. Jean is a strong, delightful woman; just the sort needed in the development of a section of Queensland, Australia that was left as a ghost town after the gold rush ended. Although a story of love and connectivity, this isn't a sappy love story. It's a solidly told story of a determined man & woman who want
The author Nevil Shute left Britain and migrated to Australia because he believed that the advent of the Welfare State would cause people to go soft(view spoiler)[ because obviously life should be hard and characterised by arbitrary harshness towards one another, that's what toughens people up so they can steal chickens from the Japanese (hide spoiler)]. Australia in his imagination was a decently virile and macho kind of place, and perhaps it is. In the way that popular fiction often is, this
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
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