Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library
is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much
loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality
paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in
Malaya during World War Two. She is forced on a brutal march across the
country with a group of women and children. During this appalling ordeal
she befriends Joe Harman, an Australian soldier who risks his own life
to help the women.
A few years later, and back in England, Jean receives an unexpected and
substantial inheritance. She decides to use the money to repay the
Malayan people who risked their lives to help her and her fellow
prisoners during the war so she travels back to the village where they
stayed. From there she travels on to Australia in search of lost love.
Cut off in the Australian outback and thousands of miles from home, Jean
once again draws on her admirable determination and entrepreneurial
spirit when she sets out to build a thriving community.
A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice is a
celebration of the overwhelming power of love.
This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by
bestselling novelist Jenny Colgan.
