A Town Like Alice
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- Hardcover
408 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2018
Summary
A Town Like Alice: Love Forged in the Crucible of War
Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, finds her life irrevocably altered when captured by the Japanese army in Malaya during World War Two. She endures a harrowing march alongside women and children, facing unimaginable hardship. Amidst this ordeal, she finds solace and courage in the friendship of Joe Harman, an Australian soldier who bravely risks everything to aid them.
Years later, back in England, Jean inherits a substan…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509834815 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1509834818 |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Author: | Nevil Shute, Jenny Colgan |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 157mm x 103mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
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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