![]() The fictional “Willstown” is apparently based on Burketown and Normanton in Queensland as this is where Shute visited once. He is the reason she goes to Australia years later. The humanity of these women never leaves them though and this contrasts so sharply with the actions of the captors that it makes it all the more heartbreaking and poignant.Ī fellow POW called Joe Harman tells of his hometown – near Alice Springs – and so the two become friends. the brutal honesty of the book rings true as some of the women and children die from such forced exertion. The scenes of her march and of the captivity are hard to read but feel so realistic and raw. ![]() Jean Paget, a Scottish woman, raised by her parents in Malay and who returns there as an adult is a unique character through which to see what is now Malaysia at the time when the Japanese invaded the island during ww2. ![]()
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