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Book Review of A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice
A Town Like Alice
Author: Nevil Shute
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2


I really enjoyed this book. It's the story of a young English woman who is captured by the Japanese at the start of WWII. No one quite knows what to do with them, so they're marched around Malaysia, dying off in droves in the process.

The second half of the novel is the story of her life after the war, and her journey to Australia and the life she builds there. The look at post-WWII Australia is fascinating.