![]() ![]() ![]() When the Japanese suddenly invades Malaya (Malaysia) Jean is taken prisoner along with thirty other white women while their husbands are herded off to Singapore or a prison camp. ![]() Ironically, Jean is not a typical flighty woman as Strachan discovers when she tells him her experience of WWII.īefore the outbreak of war, Jean worked as a typist for a British company in Kuala Lumpur and decides to stay during the war. In his will, and due to his low regard for a woman’s ability to look after her own finances, the great-uncle stipulated that Jean may not have full access to her fortune until she is thirty-five years old and his lawyer, Noel Strachan, is to act as a trustee. Jean Paget, a British woman working as a typist at a shoe and handbag manufacturer is twenty-seven years old when she inherits a nice little fortune from a long forgotten great-uncle. A Town Like Alice is a tale of an ordinary woman’s extraordinary life in the face of various hardships. ![]()
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