5/7/2023 0 Comments Author a town like alice![]() ![]() ![]() The second part is about that time in Malaya during the War at the time when the Japanese invaded the island. She tells Noel about what had happened to her in Malaya. She wonders what to do with the money and eventually decides she wants to go back to Malaya, where she had been a prisoner of war, to dig a well. Until then she will receive about £900 a year to spend. But it is held in trust until she reaches the age of thirty five. It begins a few years after the Second World War, when he tells her she has inherited a considerable sum of money from her uncle. ![]() Narrated by Noel Strachan, a solicitor, this is the story of Jean Paget. It is actually set in three parts, with just the third part set in Australia, not in Alice Springs but in Willstown, a fictional town in the outback. It was not quite what I had imagined it to be, about Alice Springs in Australia. First published in 1950 A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute is one of those books I’ve been meaning to read for years and now I have at last read it. ![]()
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