A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute From the acclaimed author of

From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others comes a groundbreaking second collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original

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surrounded by darkness in a world where good and evil wear the same face

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From Copernicus’ revolutionary claim that the earth orbits the sun and Kepler’s development of the laws of planetary motion to Einstein’s interweaving of time and space

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute From the acclaimed author ofNevil Shutes most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback. 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. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected