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,
No Place Like Home (novel) few of the older residents of the town are murdered and some of the evidence leads to Celia being suspected. Celia finds her own life in danger, as the pursuit of the murderer's identity picks up pace. Msnbc.com described the novel as a "suspenseful murder mystery". New York Times writer, Marilyn Stasio, said that the novel "taps into the tensions that go along with the joys of moving into a new home". No Place Like Home (novel) No Place Like Home is a thriller novel written by Mary Higgins Clark and published in 2005. The story starts with 10-year-old Liza