When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many.ĭue to her courageous spirit and ability to speak Malay, Jean takes on the role of leader of the sorry gaggle of prisoners and many end up owing their lives to her indomitable spirit. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. 'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language.
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