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Tidy condition
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Town Like Alice
$6.00
Brief description
A Town Like Alice follows the remarkable journey of Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman whose life is forever changed by the events of World War II. During the Japanese invasion of Malaya, Jean is interned in a prison camp with other women and children, where she endures hardship, loss, and displays extraordinary resilience. After the...
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- Published 1961
- Pre-owned
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A Town Like Alice follows the remarkable journey of Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman whose life is forever changed by the events of World War II. During the Japanese invasion of Malaya, Jean is interned in a prison camp with other women and children, where she endures hardship, loss, and displays extraordinary resilience. After the war she discovers she has inherited a significant sum of money, but with restrictions on how she can use it. Determined to build a meaningful life, Jean moves to the Australian outback and uses her resources and determination to bring economic development to a struggling town — a place she and her love interest, Joe Harman, hope to transform into a thriving community. The novel is both a tale of human endurance and a story about love, enterprise, and the transformative power of hope and perseverance.
Tidy condition binding is good.
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