‘Oh my word.' What a confused book. A Town Like Alice has been such an intriguing read. The writing had an easy flow to it and the story was certainly gripping, even though this decidedly is a book of two halves. The first half deals with the history of Jean Paget, in which we follow her to Malaya...
Here's an Australian novel by the very popular English-born author Nevil Shute, a classic first published in 1950 and never out of print since. A Town Like Alice is the story of a young Englishwoman who inherits the small estate of an old uncle whom she hardly knew, even though in trust until her ...
This was not a new story for me, having previously watched both the Peter Finch/Virginia McKenna and Brian Brown/Helen Morse film versions when I was a young girl. Yet I found it interesting how perceptions change as one gets older. When revisiting a known work either through re-reading or by compar...
19/7 - This was written in 1950, it uses language common to 1950. These facts have to be remembered when reading A Town like Alice, and reacting to said language. The characters use words like 'Abos', 'Nips', 'Boongs', and other offensive names for the indigenous people of Malaya and Australia, and ...
bookshelves: published-1950, adventure, fraudio, spring-2010, wwii, war, filthy-lucre Read from May 18 to 20, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** What a wonderful story based on a hotchpotch of believed facts and opportunist meetings. Full of the chauvinism redolent of it's time of writing, it's a cross bet...
A Town like Alice by Nevil Shute." Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War Two to the rugged Australian outback"Having read the blurb on this novel I was really looking forward to reading this story as it was...
This is the story of an extraordinary, ordinary woman, Jean Paget, and how she comes to create "a town like Alice" in the Australian outback. Her story is framed as the first person narrative of her English solicitor, Noel Strachan, who meets her when she comes into an inheritance for which he's the...
The character of Jean Paget is inspiring because she finds a way to make things better for people, be it in a small kampong in Malaysia or an outback town in Australia. She becomes a local hero in both places. I'm mentally subtitling this as "Life of a Pioneer Woman".It's just too bad the details of...
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