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  2. A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.

  3. The Japanese town major, a Captain Nisui, came to inspect them that evening; he had known nothing about them till they appeared in his town. This was quite usual and Jean was ready for it; she explained that they were prisoners being marched to camp in Singapore.

  4. Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice (called The Legacy in the United States) was published in 1950. It tells the story of a young woman named Jean Paget who becomes romantically involved with a fellow prisoner of war during WWII in modern-day Singapore.

  5. In A Town Like Alice a kernel of great dramatic, suspenseful writing is surrounded by meandering stories and ordinary characters—like all Nevil Shute novels, but one of his best..

  6. "A Town Like Alice" is a captivating novel written by Nevil Shute. First published in 1950, it explores the themes of love, resilience, and the indomitable human spirit in the face of war and hardship.

  7. A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British drama film produced by Joseph Janni and starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch that is based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. The film does not follow the whole novel, concluding at the end of part two and truncating or omitting much detail.

  8. Written by CinemaSerf on May 4, 2024 Virginia McKenna takes on the role as a dispossessed British colonial secretary forced into captivity/slavery and to fight for her very survival by the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1941 and who is, together with a group of similarly forsaken women, shunted around from camp to camp before finally being ...