A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

I read this for our RS book club and I really enjoyed it. It is a romance in the pattern of Mrs. Mike (which you must read if you have not read it before). I love stories about good, strong men and women- who dream of a better future and work to make their dreams come true. This is a wonderful story about a heroic woman and the life she makes for herself after years of torture in Malay during WWII. Also is this time period is interesting to you there is a very good book about a Dutch family living in a Japanese internment camp in Java. I will try to find the title for you and post it later.

This is one of those books where you felt you had found a new kindred spirit when you finish reading it. Remember finding your first good friends as a young girl in books? If you are like me you still think fondly of Anne and Dicken and Mrs Mike. You will add Jean to that list of friends.