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"A young Englishwoman, taken prisoner of war in Malaya by the Japanese, is befriended by an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who risks his life to help her. After the war she travels to Australia to repay her debt of gratitude and to begin a new life in the Australian outback."@en
"During the war against Japan a group of English women and children are marched across Malaya. Years later, wanting to repay the support given to her by the Malays, Jean Paget decides to return to the village."@en
"Nurse Jean Paget is one of a small band of women trekking through the Japanese-occupied Malayan jungle, where they are befriended by Joe Harman, a tough Australian P.O.W. Later each learns that the other has survived the horrors of the war, and they set out separately to find each other."
"The story of a young woman's endurance, enterprise, and initiative as a prisoner of the Japanese Army in the Malayan jungles in 1941."@en
"PLAYAWAY: During the war against Japan a group of English women and children are marched across Malaya. Constantly fighting dysentery and exhaustion, many die on the way but the rest survive. Led by Jean Paget they eventually settle in a village where they work in rice fields and are shown compassion by the Malays. Three years later they are freed and Jean returns to England. She is emotionally scarred by her experience but settles down, until receiving an unexpected bequest."
"The story of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese death march in World War II and an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her."@en
"[This book] tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her - even at the cost of his life ...-Back cover."
"Since the end of her incredible struggle to survive the desperate hardships of Japanese-occupied Malaya, Jean Paget has lived a quietly anonymous life. But an unexpected inheritance and the desire to repay long remembered kindness sends her back across the world to the place which holds memories of both horror and great tenderness. And news of what seems like a miracle reawakens old longings and hopes for a love which had barely begun and has yet to be fulfilled."
"Since the end of her incredible struggle to survive the desperate hardships of Japanese-occupied Malaya, Jean Paget has lived a quietly anonymous life. But an unexpected inheritance and the desire to repay long remembered kindness sends her back across the world to the place which holds memories of both horror and great tenderness. And news of what seems like a miracle reawakens old longings and hopes for a love which had barely begun and has yet to be fulfilled."@en
"Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. Jean's travels lead her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals."
""Eight hundred women and children begin a 1,200-mile journey on foot across Japanese-occupied Malaya. At journey's end only 30 will still be alive. This is the story of one woman, of her ordeal, and of how she was saved by the sacrifice of an Australian soldier. It is a story of rare individual courage in the face of certain death, and hope in the face of despair."--Publisher."@en
"Jean Paget has survived World War II as a prisoner of the Japanese in Malaya. After the war she comes into an inheritance that enables her to return to Malaya to repay the villagers who helped her to survive. But her return visit changes her life again, when she discovers that an Australian soldier she thought had died has survived. She goes to Australia in search of him and of the town he described to her."@en

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"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"History"
"History"@en
"Talking books"@en
"Love stories"@en
"Adventure stories"
"Kvindeskildringer"
"Audiobooks"@en
"Audiobooks"
"War stories"
"War stories"@en

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"A Town like Alice"@en
"A town like Alice"
"A town like Alice"@en
"Town like Alice cassette pack"@en
"Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute"

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