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A TOWN LIKE ALICE Nevil Shute Read by Robin Bailey

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A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute (1950)

Narrated by Robin Bailey.
Unabridged, (only published on) 8 audio cassettes (10hrs 18 mins)
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books (Sep 1988) (Chivers bought by BBC Audiobooks)
ISBN-10: 0745162738
ISBN-13: 978-0745162737

I converted a library copy of this recording to MP3 (not my own well worn cassette copies of same).
From audio cassette (Nakamichi Dragon) to CD (Pioneer PDR-555RW) to MP3 (iTunes 8)
Bitrate: ~75 kbps VBR, Mono, 32,000 kHz.

Dolby NR was NOT used. You can post-process to your liking.
(Not the best recording, but fine enough).

The book is a classic favorite, and one my favorite books to listen to. Superb reading.
Robin Bailey will forever BE Noel Strachan for me:
"Of a girl that I met forty years too late, and of her life in that small town that I shall never see again, that holds so much of my affection."
This reading holds so much of my affection. I get just a little glassy eyed everytime I hear that line...

Also have posted another Nevil Shute favorite of mine: Round The Bend

Cheers, FerraBit
February 2009

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Town_Like_Alice
http://www.nevilshute.org
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From Wiki:
A Town Like Alice (U.S. title: The Legacy) is a novel by the English author Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Jean Paget; as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and then her return to Malaya after the war where she discovers something that leads her on the search for romance and to a small outback community in Australia where she sets out to turn it into 'a town like Alice'. It was first published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. The "Alice" in the title refers to Alice Springs, Australia.

-Jean Paget - young English woman who is a prisoner of war in Malaya and later finds love and settles in the Australian outback.
-Joe Harman - an Australian cattleman who is a prisoner of war in Malaya; he gets back to Australia.
-Noel Strachan - the narrator; he is Jean Paget's solicitor and trustee, and...

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