A Town Like Alice (U.S. title: The Legacy) is a novel by the British-Australian author Nevil Shute. The story of a young Englishwoman, told by her elderly solicitor and trustee, about her time as a prisoner in Malaya during World War II and her new post-war life in Australia, in a small outback community which she sets out to turn into 'a town like Alice' i.e. Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. It was first published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.
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“As for the sacred Scriptures, or Bibles of mankind, who in this town can tell me even their titles? Most men do not know that any nation but the Hebrews have had a scripture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)