A Town Like Alice.

SHUTE, Nevil.

Item Number: 119643

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1950.

First edition of Shute’s classic romance novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Armorial bookplate.

Published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia, A Town Like Alice follows the story of Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman who becomes romantically involved with a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia to invest her inheritance in a small outback community. The novel was adapted into the film of the same name in 1956 starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch.