This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist Jenny Colgan. 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.Ī heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love. From there she travels on to Australia in search of lost love. In the United States it was shown on PBS under the Masterpiece Theatre banner, a rare non-British production to be so aired. Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take. A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shutes novel of the same name.Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book. The show also represented a massive career shift for Bryan Brown. 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. As a member of a group of women and children captured by the Japanese army during World War II, British citizen Jean Paget is forced. Moving six-part miniseries based on Nevil Shutes novel traces a romance during and after WWII in postwar Australia as two. A Town Like Alice: With Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, John Lee. A local hit of massive proportions, A Town Like Alice eventually won an International Emmy for best mini-series, along with many other awards. During this appalling ordeal she befriends Joe Harman, an Australian soldier who risks his own life to help the women.Ī few years later, and back in England, Jean receives an unexpected and substantial inheritance. She is forced on a brutal march across the country with a group of women and children.

Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in Malaya during World War Two. 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. 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. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins.

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