Jean – the sole surviving member of her family after the war – has inherited a distant uncle’s estate. The heroine’s name is Jean Paget, and when we meet her she is working as a secretary in a handbag manufacturer’s. Amazing! I don’t think I’m going out on a limb by saying attitudes to women in both those countries during the fifties weren’t brilliant. One thing that really struck me on re-reading was how astonishing the heroine is considering a) the era the novel was written and b) the fact that not only was the author a man, he was also British and lived in Australia. I re-read A Town Like Alice recently, and discovered again how much I love it. This novel doesn’t fall into the romance category in the way the other two novels do, but it’s definitely a love story. Today I’m moving on a decade to the 1950s, and to talk about Nevil Shute’s classic novel, A Town Like Alice. In previous posts I’ve covered a Mills & Boon novel of the thirties, and a romance of the forties.
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