Nevil Shute
A Town Like Alice
Hardcover
(Book Club March 15, 1956)
, Book Club (BCA/BOMC) edition
A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) 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" i.e. Alice Springs.
- Weight
- 5.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 4.9 in.
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