The war to help a small village that had taken the women in. The countryside, with the story being capped by her return to Malaya after Then there's the story she tells him of herĮxperiences in the far east during the Second World War, when she wasĪmong a number of women taken prisoner by the Japanese and forced to tramp First there's the story of how a London lawyer for the estate of a Scotsman tracks down his only heir, the aforesaid young Paget, introduces her to her some modest wealth and London culture, and quietly falls in love with her despite the disparity in their ages-without telling her or admitting it to himself. In fact, this novel is more like a collection of stories, linked by the character of Jean Paget. Most of the novel doesn't even take place in Australia, but rather in England and Malaya.
The building of the new town in Australia is only a minor part of A Town Like Alice, just the climax really of a very long story arc.
It takes Nevil Shute a long time in this novel to get around to the town of Alice (Alice Springs actually), and even longer to get around to the town like Alice.
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