"Set in Singapore during WWII, this enthralling story explores women in war, sisterhood, and survival in stirring style."
From the acclaimed author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris’ Sisters Under the Rising Sun is a heart-breaker, heart-healer and all-round heart-stirrer of a story about making unimaginable choices in order to survive the unimaginable. It’s also a joyous tale of finding the beauty of friendship, sisterhood and music in even the most brutal of circumstances, in this case Singapore as it’s on the verge of falling to the Japanese army during WWII.
Caught in such a terrifying situation Norah, an English musician, takes the decision to put her eight-year-old daughter on a ship that’s leaving Singapore while she stays to care for her aging parents. At the same time, Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has signed up to care for the Allied troops. The women’s paths cross aboard a merchant ship, which is soon bombarded near Indonesia and sunk.
Against all odds. Nesta and Norah reach a remote island, where they’re captured and imprisoned in a POW camp. Conditions are brutal, but the women draw on phenomenal reserves of love, kindness, grit and resourcefulness to keep each other safe and sane, and to aid the survival of other prisoners.
Suffused in love, light, music and incredible camaraderie, Sisters Under the Rising Sun is an insightful, inspiring show-stopper of a story.
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A Richard and Judy summer book club pick
'One of the books of the decade' - Richard Madeley
The phenomenal new novel, based on a true story, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters
Singapore is burning. It is February 1942, and the Vyner Brooke is sailing out of the harbour and to safety. On deck is an English musician, Norah Chambers, who gazes over the besieged city as the beautiful voices of the Australian nurses on board sing 'Waltzing Matilda'.
One of these nurses is Nesta James, a pint-sized rocket of a woman, who quells her fears by caring for the frightened people on board.
But danger lies ahead. When Nesta and Norah meet at a female prisoner-of-war camp they must find strength and resilience they never knew they had. Can they work together to survive against all odds, and find hope in the darkest of days?
Sisters under the Rising Sun tells the inspiring true story of women at war and of the friendship and sisterhood that changed the generation that came after them.
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Sisters Under the Rising Sun features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, General Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Book Club Recommendations, Recommendations
Sisters Under the Rising Sun is available in Paperback, Hardback
Sisters Under the Rising Sun was written by Heather Morris and published by Zaffre an imprint of Bonnier Books UK
Sisters Under the Rising Sun has 333 pages
£8.99
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