num_pages: 288
description: A Town Like Alice tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the cost of his life...."A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance." ~Harper's
language: English
title: A Town Like Alice
titlecomplete: A Town Like Alice
characters: Jean Paget, Joe Harman
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Australia, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 56763
places: Malacca, Alice Springs, Australia, Northern Territory, Southeast Asia, Malaysia
publisher: Ballantine Books