What made it easier for her, i think, is that she not only was unencumbered but also young.

It is a good question and i think others here have answered the way i do. Marialyce wrote: 'Do you think we are all capable of that, or do you think she was somehow special, a special woman for a special time? Does circumstance makes her heroic or would she have. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), A Town Like Alice (1950), and On the Beach (1957). After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death in 1960. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they had two daughters. In his spare time he began writing and he published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926, using the name Nevil Shute to protect his engineering career. Following his childhood passion, he entered the fledgling aircraft industry as an aeronautical engineer working to develop airships and, later, airplanes. He studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. Nevil Shute Norway was born in 1899 in Ealing, London. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked the novel seventeenth on The Reader's List of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century Written from the perspective of her Scottish solicitor and trustee, it tells the story of her time as a prisoner of war in Malaya, and her post-war life in a small outback community in Australia, which she sets out to turn into 'a town like Alice', Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. title: The Legacy) is a novel by the British author Nevil Shute about a young Englishwoman in Malaya during World War II and in outback Australia post-war. 'A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance.'Ī Town Like Alice (U.S. Also type SPOILER when given away a major plot element. Spoiler Etiquette: Please post the chapter and or page number at the top of your post. Where: The discussion will take place in this thread. When: The discussion will begin on November 1, 2011

A town like alice