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Plot summary. The story falls broadly into three parts. In post-World War II London, Jean Paget, a secretary in a leather goods factory, is informed by solicitor Noel Strachan that she has inherited a considerable sum of money from an uncle she never knew.
British-Australian author Nevil Shute’s historical romance novel A Town Like Alice (1950) is about Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman who becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II being held in British Malaya.
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute takes the reader through WWII in Malaya to the Australian Outback. The novel begins in London, where solicitor Noel Strachan is tasked with managing a trust left to a young woman named Jean Paget by a wealthy older client.
Nevil Shute's "A Town Like Alice" intertwines the stories of Jean Paget and Joe Harman, two remarkable individuals brought together by war and separated by tragedy. The novel explores themes of resilience, love, and empowerment, taking readers on a journey that spans continents and generations.
Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her.
A Town Like Alice tells the story of a plucky young Englishwoman who becomes a legend in Malaya during World War II, inherits a fortune, marries her true love, and wisely uses her money to transform an Australian ghost town into a thriving community.
A ragged group of womenfolk of the British Tea- planters was forced by the Japanese invaders to march across Malaya. Jean Paget was fed by an Australian PoW who was then crucified by the Japanese. The women worked in the Malay paddy fields to keep alive.
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