A Town Like Alice
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First editionFirst publication
1950
Literary form
Novel
Genres
Literary
Writing language
English
Author's country
England
Length
Approx. 92,000 words
Notable lines
James Macfadden died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point to Point.
— First line
"You don't have to be sorry," she replied. "It was one of those things that seem to happen in a war. It's a long time ago, now—nearly six years. And Captain Sugamo was hung—not for that, but for what he did upon the railway. It's all over and done with now, and nearly forgotten."
I have sat here day after day this winter, sleeping a good deal in my chair, hardly knowing if I was in London or the Gulf country, dreaming of the blazing sunshine, of poddy-dodging and black stockmen, of Cairns and of Green Island. 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.
— Last lines
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