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Cut off in the Australian outback and thousands of miles from home, Jean once again draws on her admirable determination and entrepreneurial spirit when she sets out to build a thriving community..
From there she travels on to Australia in search of lost love.
She decides to use the money to repay the Malayan people who risked their lives to help her and her fellow prisoners during the war so she travels back to the village where they stayed.
During this appalling ordeal she befriends Joe Harman, an Australian soldier who risks his own life to help the women.
A few years later, and back in England, Jean receives an unexpected and substantial inheritance.
She is forced on a brutal march across the country with a group of women and children.
This Macmillan Collector\'s Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist, Jenny Colgan.
Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in Malaya during World War Two.
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A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love.
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector\'s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles
