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A Town Like Alice

Nevil Shute

Start date: January 1, 2016

Finish date: January 31, 2016

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Dec 14, 2015 鈽疎尘颈濒测 Ginder rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, 20th-century-classics, classics-for-beginners-2016, read-in-2016

Jean Paget was captured in the Malay peninsula by the Japanese during the second World War. Not knowing what to do with women and children, the Japanese army officials sent them wandering from place to place. One day, Jean meets an Australian prisoner who was a mechanic for the Japanese. Their friendship leads to a terrible tragedy.

After the war, Jean becomes a beneficiary of an inheritance. She uses part of the inheritance to return to Malaya and have a well dug for the village who had befriend ...more

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Jun 24, 2012 Lauren rated it it was amazing

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It is difficult for me to explain why I adored this novel so much. It is written with a simplicity that is jarring at first, especially if you, like me, have become accustomed to reading flowery prose and long winded descriptions. There is none of that. Instead there is a story. The story starts slow, I think, because the author wants us as the reader to fully understand and grasp the back story.

The story is told from the point of view of Noel Stratchan, an elderly lawyer in charge of the estat ...more

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Jan 04, 2016 Michelle rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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A story about a young English woman in Malay during WWII and during the aftermath of the war. Part hero saga, part love story, this book kept me interested until the end. I thought for the first part of the book the third person narration was a bad choice but by the end I realized it was a key part of the story. Shute gives a lot of detail in his writing. This is sometimes frustrating to the reader but it does make the story seem real.

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