Originally Posted by Meadowrose
32) (Classic #3) A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute. I really enjoyed this one. It definitely deserves a place on the classics list! An Englishwoman in Malaya and an Australian soldier (both captured by the Japanese in WW2) meet, lose one another and come together in the end.

Oh, I love this book. There was a movie made (in the 50s?) which I've never seen, but the 1980s mini-series with Bryan Brown and Helen Morse was brilliant. The mini-series followed the book so closely that some lines are copied exactly.

Corrina.