Town Like Alice

Informationen zum Autor Nevil Shute was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan , in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957). Klappentext Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many. Zusammenfassung Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many.

Product details

• Authors: Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute Norway
• Assisted by: Eric Lomax (Introduction), Lomax Eric (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.09.2009
• EAN: 9780099530268
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953026-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, FICTION / Classics, Australia, Historical adventure, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Romance / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Historical adventure fiction