A Town like Alice

Title: A Town like Alice 
Author: Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960
Publication detail:  London : Macmillan Collector's Library, 2018. ©1950

This is the story of Jean Paget, a Scottish woman, who was captured together with 80 women and children by the Japanese during World War II in Malaya, when they have been forced to walk through the jungle trails for more than 1200 miles. The story also covers postwar time, when Jean find peace back in Australia. The word Alice in the title refers to the actual town of Alice Spring.

The narrator of this story is Noel Strachan, the solicitor of Jean's heritage and he must act as her trustee until she completes 35 years old. It is a wonderful story of heroism, far off places, Australia and Malaya, native people, life and death, love and hardship.

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