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Book a week in it, local resort (1,4,4,5)

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I believe the answer is:

a town like alice

'book' is the definition.
(novel by Nevil Shute)

'a week in it local resort' is the wordplay.
'resort' indicates anagramming the letters.
'week'+'in'+'it'+'local'='weekinitlocal'
'weekinitlocal' with letters rearranged gives 'townlikealice'.
'a'+'townlikealice'='A TOWN LIKE ALICE'

(Other definitions for a town like alice that I've seen before include "Book by Nevil Shute" , "For a novel" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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