A Town Like Alice is a story about Englishwomen and children forced on a WW II Malayan death march and the heroine's recovery in Australia. The novel, told partly in flashbacks, is about a girl's search for the Australian she met in Malaya during World War II. It is told, somewhat mysteriously, from the perspective of a young Englishwoman's elderly Scottish solicitor and trustee. He tells the story of her time as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and her new post-war life in Australia, in a small outback community which she sets out to turn into 'a town like Alice'. A Town Like Alice is a harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance.
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