by Nevil Shute
I do not think that I have ever before turned to real life for an incident in one of my novels. If I have done so now it is because I have been unable to resist the appeal of this true story, and because I want to pay what tribute is within my power to the most gallant lady I have ever met.
NEVIL SHUTE
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, FEBRUARY 2010
Copyright © 1950 by William Morrow & Co. Inc.
Copyright renewed 1978 by Heather Norway Mayfield
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. First published serially in two installments in Woman’s Home Companion, New York (April and May 1950). Published in book form in Great Britain as A Town Like Alice by William Heinemann Ltd., London, and in the United States as The Legacy by William Morrow & Co. Inc., New York, in 1950. This 2009 edition first published in slightly different form in Great Britain by Vintage Books, an imprint of The Random House Group Limited, London. Copyright © The Trustees of the Estate of Nevil Shute Norway.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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