A Town Like Alice A Town Like Alice A Town Like Alice (United States title: "The Legacy") is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia to be with him, where she attempts, by investing her substantial financial inheritance, to generate economic prosperity in a small outback community — to turn it into "a town like Alice" i.e. Alice Springs. The story falls broadly into three parts. In Post-World War II London,
Take a Girl Like You (film) Take a Girl Like You (film) Take a Girl Like You is a 1970 British comedy film directed by Jonathan Miller and starring Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed and Noel Harrison. Based on the 1960 novel "Take a Girl Like You" by Kingsley Amis, it was adapted by George Melly. A television adaptation was broadcast in 2000. Mills plays Jenny, a good girl who comes to a small British town to start a simple life. Soon she becomes the center of male attention around the town. Leading the pack is the honest but gruff Patrick, who shares one goal along with