A Town Like Alice 4.14 (53,774 ratings by Goodreads) Hardback Macmillan Collectors Library English By (author) Nevil Shute , Introduction by Jenny Colgan Categories: Contemporary Fiction Classic Books & Novels Military Fiction World War 2 Fiction Historical Romance Historical Romance Description A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love. This Macmillan Collectors Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist, Jenny Colgan. 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. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collectors Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collectors Library are books to love and treasure. Product details Format Hardback | 408 pages Dimensions 103 x 157 x 25mm | 246g Publication date 13 Feb 2018 Publisher Pan Macmillan Imprint Macmillan Collectors Library Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom Language English Edition Unabridged Edition Statement Unabridged 10 1509834818 13 9781509834815 Bestsellers rank 81,596