Descrizione:
This collector's edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. 12 point Garamond, 1.15 spacing. A Town Like Alice is a romance and adventure novel. It tells the story of Jean Paget, an Englishwoman living in Malaya who is captured by the invading Japanese during World War II. She is taken on a brutal death march with dozens of other women and children. After the war, when Jean is back in England, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to help the villagers who saved her life. She draws on all the determination and strength that helped her survive the wartime ordeal and sets about generating economic prosperity in a desolate Australian community.
Jean Paget is an unforgettable heroine, and A Town Like Alice is a great read and a reflection of the resilience and strength of the human spirit. |
