It remains widely read today, especially in Australia. Exploring themes of war, women’s place in society, race relations, entrepreneurship, and resurrection, A Town Like Alice, considered one of the greatest Australian novels of the era, has been adapted multiple times, most famously as a 1956 feature film starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch, as well as a 1981 television drama that aired on Masterpiece Theater in the United States, and a 1997 BBC radio drama. After being freed, she moves to Australia to be with him, using her financial inheritance to try to turn a small Outback community into a prosperous town - “A Town like Alice” or Alice Springs. British-Australian author Nevil Shute’s historical romance novel A Town Like Alice (1950) is about Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman who becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II being held in British Malaya.
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