A Town Like Alice

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. 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.