A Town Like Alice: Nevil ShuteIn World War II the Japanese Army invades Malaya and Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is taken prisoner with other English women and children then forced on a brutal seven month death march. They trudge from camp to camp, always turned away, leaving graves behind them and secretly learning to trade jewellery for medicines and extra food just to survive. Jean meets Australian P. O. W. Joe Harman, who tells her about the Gulf Country,