A Town Like Alice

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. * "Entertaining ... Dramatic ... Shute is a natural and effective story-teller." -The New York Times

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...