Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
The phenomenal new novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author ofThe Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris.
In the midst of WWII, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from theJapanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care forher husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again.Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops.But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people,including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship.Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia,and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed.After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches ofa remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of theirnotorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, wheredisease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side everyday, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each otherextraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination.
Sisters under the Rising Sun is a story of women in war: a novel of sisterhood,bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances, from the multimillion copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters.