TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shute,Nevil
TI  - A town like Alice
SN  - 9780977511464
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Marleston
PB  - Gecko Books
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - Malaysia
KW  - Malaya
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Australia
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - 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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