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Originally broadvast as 6 x 30 min episodes, the bbc have at some time rebroadcast this as 4 x 45 min episodes. Discussion questions for a town like alice by nevil shute galesburg public library tuesday book club november 2006 1. Nevil shute norway was a british novelist and aeronautical engineer. A town like alice vintage international series by nevil shute. The legacy is an economic development and romance novel by nevil shute, published in 1950 when shute had newly settled in australia. I had the free run of the library of one of our neighbors that was the accidental part.
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