History Literature / ATownLikeAlice

%%* TheLostWoods: The Malayan Jungle.

* {{Rancher}}: Joe Bannock, though he didn't own it til the end.
%%* SpiritedYoungLady: Jean Paget.

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Nevil Shute's 1950 novel tells the story of Jean Paget as a prisoner of war in Malaya during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and then her return to Malaya after the war, where she discovers something that leads her on the search for romance and to a small outback community in Australia. Adapted into a 1956 film and a 1981 miniseries.

* BlitheSpirit: Jean Paget.
* TheCaretaker: Joe in Malaya, Noel in England.
* CitySlicker: Jean, both in Malaya and in the Outback.
* {{Cowboy}}: Joe does this for a living.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Sort of, Joe isn't a doctor but he is TheCaretaker.

* LandDownUnder
* TheLostWoods: The Malayan Jungle.
* [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Obstructive Bureaucrats]]: The Japanese Army.
* OfficerAndAGentleman: The first Japanese officer they meet.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The sadistic Japanese commandant is obsessed with being this.

* SpiritedYoungLady: Jean Paget.

* WastelandElder: The Malayan headman.

* AussiesWithArtillery

* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: The setting of part of the book.

* AFriendInNeed: Joe, the Old Japanese Soldier, and the village headman who takes them in.

* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII

* BlitheSpirit: Jeane Paget.

* CitySlicker: Jeane, both in Malaya and in the Outback.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Noel does this knowing he is to old for Jeane. Joe does this at first thinking Jeane is married.

* AFriendInNeed: Joe, the Old Japanese Soldier as well, the village headman who takes them in.

* OfficerAndAGentleman : The first Japanese officer they meet.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy : The sadistic Japanese commandant is obsessed with being this.
* {{Rancher}}: Joe Bannock didn't own it til the end.
* SpiritedYoungLady : Jean Paget.
* UpperClassTwit : The rubber plantation owner's wife who only thinks it necessary to learn enough Malayan to give orders to the servants.
* WastelandElder : The Malayan headman.

* AFriendInNeed : Joe, the Old Japanese Soldier as well, the village headman who takes them in.

* BeauGeste : Joe ends up crucified for Jeane. He survives by manipulating the Japanese officer's odd version of HonorBeforeReason.
* BlitheSpirit : Jeane Paget.
* TheCaretaker : Joe in Malaya, Noel in England.
* CitySlicker : Jeane, both in Malaya and in the Outback.
* {{Cowboy}} : Joe does this for a living.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect : Sort of, Joe isn't a doctor but he is TheCaretaker.
* GoingNative : The women live out the war by picking rice in a Malayan village.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy : Noel does this knowing he is to old for Jeane. Joe does this at first thinking Jeane to be married.

* TheLostWoods : The Malayan Jungle.
* [[ObstructiveBureaucrat ObstructiveBureaucrats]] : The Japanese Army.

Nevil Shute's 1950 novel tells the story of Jean Paget as a prisoner of war in Malaya during WorldWarII and then her return to Malaya after the war, where she discovers something that leads her on the search for romance and to a small outback community in Australia. Adapted into a 1956 film and a 1981 miniseries.

* WorldWarII