"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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