Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Town Like AliceCondition: NewEAN: 9781509834815ISBN: 9781509834815Publisher: Macmillan Collector's LibraryFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/08/2018Item Height: 157mmItem Length: 103mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 246gAuthor: Nevil ShuteLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1509834818Description: A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love. 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. She is forced on a brutal march across the country with a group of women and children. 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 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. From there she travels on to Australia in search of lost love. 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.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBContributor: Jenny Colgan (Introduction by)Genre: FictionBook Series: Macmillan Collector's LibraryTopic: Historical Fiction, Classic FictionRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: A Town Like Alice
Title: A Town Like Alice
EAN: 9781509834815
ISBN: 9781509834815
Release Date: 02/08/2018
Release Year: 2018
ISBN-10: 1509834818
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Jenny Colgan (Introduction by)
Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Book Title: Town like Alice
Number of Pages: 408 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Topic: Classics, War & Military, Romance / Historical / 20th Century, General
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2018
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 7.8 Oz
Item Length: 6.2 in
Author: Nevil Shute
Item Width: 4.1 in
Format: Hardcover
