During their time on foot, Jean meets another prisoner of war by the name of Joe. They spend months being marched all across the region where no one wants responsibility for them. The story flashes back to a time during WWII, when Jean was essentially a prisoner of war amid a large group of women in Malaysia. Jean Paget is a young woman who finds herself the recipient of a large trust fund. This book takes place in the years during and after World War II, so it probably spans the '40s and into the '50s. How many loved your moments of glad grace,Īnd loved your beauty with love false or true īut one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,Īnd loved the sorrows of your changing face. He lived in Australia for the ten years before his death. Negative publicity in connection with his novels. Used Nevil Shute as his pen name, and his full name in his engineeringĬareer, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. Published 2000 by House of Stratus (first published 1950) Her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds aĬhallenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit thatĬarried her through her war-time ordeals. Something back to the villagers who saved her life.

Unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give The war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, isĬaptured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-monthĭeath march with dozens of other women and children. Beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroineįrom the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian

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