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A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.
A Town Like Alice: With Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, John Lee. Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British drama film produced by Joseph Janni and starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch that is based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. The film does not follow the whole novel, concluding at the end of part two and truncating or omitting much detail.
Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her.
Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, AMT2.0 - Remember? 5.75K subscribers. 322. 31K views 8 months ago. Quite different to the first screen adaptation, with about one third being set after the...
A Town Like Alice: Directed by Jack Lee. With Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takaki, Tran Van Khe. A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war.
A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network , and directed by David Stevens , it was the second major adaptation of the book.
Feb 9, 2010 · A Town Like Alice (Vintage International) Paperback – February 9, 2010. From the hugely acclaimed author of On the Beach—a tale of love and war that follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.
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Feb 13, 2018 · A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist Jenny Colgan. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more.
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Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her.
