by Jenny Colgan,
Nevil Shute
368 Pages
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2015
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1 MB
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The “A Town like Alice” is a very good read for anyone who enjoys historical fiction based on fact. Nevil Shute and Jenny Colgan are the authors of this novel. A Town like Alice is a very enjoyable novel. Malaya in World War II is the setting for the first part of the book as the protagonist, Jean, describes her ordeal at the hands of the Japanese. It is based on true events which happened in Sumatra during WW2 when a group of European women were forced by the Japanese to march for thousands of miles. This is one of Nevil Shute’s best-loved novels. Nevil Shute’s writing and his close association with aviation is fantastic. He was a practical man with imagination and wrote about what he knew best in his quiet unassuming way.
This book, along with others, was made into a movie in the fifties starring the great Australian actor, Peter Finch as Joe Harman the Australian cattleman from the outback. Virginia McKenna plays the lead role as the English heroine, Jean Paget. A TV minis series was also made during the eighties. The story takes place over a period of more than ten years, between Malaya, England and Australia, but is never dull. As time goes by, Jean’s courage and unexpected talents are revealed.