The town grows and the population triples in three years, and becomes a 'town like Alice'.

Jean ends up with a business mini-empire - the workshop, an ice cream parlour, a beauty salon, a dress shop, a swimming pool, a grocery store. With opportunity for employment, the young women do not have to leave home to find work, and consequently more young men move into the district to work on the cattle stations (and eventually marry the young women). She arranges a sales agreement with her former employers to sell her product in England, and hires one of their forewomen to join her in Willston to run her workshop and teach the girls the shoe-making trade. Nevil Shutes most beloved novel, a tale of love and. She returns to England alone after the war and works as a secretary until she gets her inheritance. Buy A Town Like Alice at Preloved Book shop, who sell quality second-hand online books in Australia. The story, narrated by her solicitor, Noel Strachan, follows Jean Paget, daughter of a Scotswoman and an English army captain. Having done so, I realise what I’ve missed. The twenty-seven-year-old Jean and her brother, Donald, work in Malaya as the war ramps up. A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute, is a novel I have heard about since childhood yet until recently I had not read it. Jean opens a workshop to make shoes from local crocodile skins, and hires local girls to work for her. A Town Like Alice begins in Scotland, as wealthy Douglas MacFadden dies and his lawyer, Noel Strachan, is sent to find his sole remaining heir, Jean Paget. Lipscomb, Richard Mason, Nevil Shute Release Date (Streaming): Runtime: 1h 47m Production Co: Rank. Realizing that in order for the town to change and grow, there has to be a reason for young people in the area to stay rather than leaving for the big cities to find work. Genre: Drama, War Original Language: English Director: Jack Lee Writer: W.P. Jean still thinks Willston is awful, so she decides to change it, to make it more like Alice Springs.

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