Title: A town like Alice
First published: 1967
Description: Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.

Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. Jean's travels leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.
Subjects: Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Literature, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Australia, fiction, Fiction, general, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Prisoners of war, Fiction, historical, general, Soldiers, Prisoners and prisons
Places: Australia, Malaysia, Malaya, Several places in Britain, Malaya and Australia.
Time periods: WWII, The bulk of the story is in 1942, and from 1948 to 1953?
LC classification: PZ3.N83 Le, PR6027.O54 Le, PR6027.O54 L4 1990