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 Torriani by Fandango Libri. In 2015, with Giampiero Judica, she wrote her first screenplay for the TV series "Cleaning your Shit", which was filmed in 2017. Alice played the main role. Alice Torriani Alice Torriani (born 25 March 1984) is an Italian film actor, author and screenwriter. She is notable for her portrayal of Andreina in "Il Paradiso delle Signore" ("Ladies' Paradise") directed by Monica Vullo and as the author of the novel "L'altra Sete" ("A Different Thirst"). Alice graduated from The Paolo Grassi Drama School in Milan in 2007 and started theatrical tours in Italy and Europe with Romeo Castellucci,