Jean’s search for Joe leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals. But it turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Nevil Shute was a British-Australian author and aeronautical engineer. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. Author of A Town Like Alice Todays crossword puzzle clue is a general knowledge one: Author of A Town Like Alice. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. Australian release: The film was given an open-air premiere in Alice Springs on July 24th at the Pioneer Theatre, attended by Peter Finch and author Nevil Shute. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. transforming his one-horse outback town into a thriving community like Alice Springs.With an introduction by Eric Lomax, author of The Railway Man. Shute is a natural and effective story-teller.” - The New York Times From the hugely acclaimed author of On the Beach -a tale of love and war that follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.
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