Nevil Shute

A Town Like Alice

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform May 6, 2015) , 1 edition
A Town Like Alice is an economic development and romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia to be with him, where she attempts, by investing her substantial financial inheritance, to generate economic prosperity in a small outback community — to turn it into "a town like Alice"
ISBN
1512083925 / 9781512083927
Pages
210
Weight
8.0 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.5 in.

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