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,
Alice Elinor Lambert Like That", she describes a young girl who refuses an artist's proposal and later regrets her decision. Specifically, the main character, Miss Juliet Delany, remembers, Reports are conflicting about whether or not Lambert ever married. David Silcox and Harold Town wrote that she never married, while Roy MacGregor wrote that she married a man and had two daughters with him. She died in Marysville, Washington in 1981 at the age of 95. Alice Elinor Lambert Alice Elinor Lambert (1886–1981) was an American romance writer. Lambert was born in Corvallis, Oregon in 1886. Her father, Charles Edward Lambert, was born in