A Town Like Alice
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Sell my copyAuthor: Nevil Shute
Title: A Town Like Alice
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 368
Release Date: 2018-02-13
Details: Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
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.
A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love.
This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist Jenny Colgan.
EAN: 9781509834815
Package Dimensions: Height: 6.22 Inches, Length: 4.09 Inches, Weight: 0.54233716452 Pounds, Width: 0.84 Inches
