Publisher's Synopsis
Jean Paget has survived World War II as a prisoner of the Japanese in Malaya. After the war an inheritance enables her to return to Malaya to repay the villagers who helped her, but the visit changes her life again when she discovers that an Australian soldier she thought had died has survived. Jean goes to Australia in search of him and of the town he described to her, and sets about turning the community into 'a town like Alice'. She finds both her soldier and romance.
