A Town Like Alice
$33.61
- Hardcover
408 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2018
Summary
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 hel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509834815 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1509834818 |
| Author: | Nevil Shute, Jenny Colgan |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 103mm x 157mm |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute Norway was born in London in 1899. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in engineering in 1922 and began working as an aeronautical engineer. The first of his 24 novels, Marazan, was published in 1926 and these two very separate careers flourished in tandem until he ceased work in 1938 to write full-time. As a Naval Volunteer Reservist in the Second World War, Shute developed anti-submarine missiles and was sent to Normandy to chronicle the D-Day landings. In 1945 he emigrated to Australia with his wife and daughters and there wrote perhaps his most famous novels - A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957). He died in Melbourne in 1960.
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