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A heart-rending story of human fortitude set in the jungles of Malaya during the Japanese occupation, where a group of European women and children struggle to survive on a forced march. After the war, in Australia, Jean and Joe dream of surmounting the past and transforming his one-horse outback town into a thriving community like Alice Springs.
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"A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance."
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A TOWN LIKE ALICE tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the cost of his life....
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NEVIL SHUTE NORWAY was born on January 17, 1899 in Ealing, London. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on January 12, 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).
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- PublisherVintage Classics
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0099530260
- ISBN 13 9780099530268
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages368
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