Shelf Control #224: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh.

Book Review: Germinal (1885) by Emile Zola #Zoladdiction2023.

Shelf Control #225: Blind Corner by Dornford Yates.

Blog Tour and Book Review: The Widow’s Weeds (2023) by Allie Cresswell.

Shelf Control #226: Auntie Robbo by Ann Scott-Montcrieff.

Announcing #ReadingtheMeow2023: A Week of Reading Books With Cats in them!.

If you participate this week, do share your links and I’ll add you to the participants list! Have you read A Town Like Alice? How did you like it? Any others by Shute that you’d recommend?Ĭover image and description via Goodreads author information via Wikipedia

So, this makes A Town Like Alice a book that I definitely do want to read! I’ve enjoyed the books by Shute I’ve read before, particularly Pied Piper, the story of a retired man who wants to contribute to the Second World War and finds an opportunity to do so, when he must help take some children out of the continent and into safety. While the description seems to reveal only the bare outlines of the plot, this is a book I’ve heard so much about over the years, including from fellow bloggers and readers. But from here, she ends up travelling to an isolated Australian outpost where she faces a challenge that will draw on all her resourcefulness and spirit. After the war, back in England, Jean decides to travel to Malaya once more to give back to the villagers who saved her life. Jean Paget is a young Englishwoman living in Malaya who is captured by the invading Japanese and finds herself on the death march. A Town Like Alice (1950) is described as a story of love and war, which follows its heroine from the Malayan jungles to Australia.

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