01226cam a2200217 a 4500003000900000003000900009005001700018008004100035020001800076040004300094100003000137245002400167264003700191300002400228520059000252650003500842650004900877650003400926651002400960655002400984PH-MaWHOPH-MaWHO20241108112737.0100316s2010    nyu           000 1 eng d  a9780977511464  aBTCTAcWPRO LibrarydYDXCPdEINCPdDLC1 aShute, Nevil,d1899-1960.12aA town like Alice /  aMarleston :bGecko Books,c2008.  a338 pages ;c21 cm.  aJean 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. 0aWorld War, 1939-1945vFiction. 0aPrisoners of warzMalaysiazMalayavFiction. 0aSoldierszAustraliavFiction. 0aAustraliavFiction. 7aHistorical fiction.