Shute Nevil - A Town Like Alice - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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. Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Title: A Town Like Alice
Author(s): Shute Nevil
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781509834815
Pages: 408 Pages
Publication Date: 2/13/2018
Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Category: Second World War Fiction