A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute
Mass Market Paperback
(Ballantine Books, July 15, 1985)
A heart-rending story of human fortitude set in the jungles of Malaya during the Japanese occupation, where a group of European women and children struggle to survive on a forced march. After the war, in Australia, Jean and Joe dream of surmounting the past and transforming his one-horse outback town into a thriving community like Alice Springs.