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. 1942. Singapore is falling to the
Japanese Army. English musician Norah Chambers places her
eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate
to keep her safe. As the island burns, Australian nurse Nesta James
joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah,
crammed aboard the HMS Vyner Brooke. After only two days at sea, the
ship is bombarded and sunk. Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of
Indonesia only to be captured and held in one of the notorious
Japanese POW camps, places of starvation and brutality. But even here
joy can be found, in music, where Norah's 'voice orchestra' transports
the internees from squalor into light. The friendships they build with
the dozens of other women in the camps will give them the hope,
strength and camaraderie they need in order to stay alive. Sisters
under the Rising Sun tells the story of women in war: a novel of
sisterhood, bravery and resilience in the darkest of circumstances.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a #3 Sunday Times bestseller from 5 May
2024
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ISBN
9781786582232
Publisert
2023
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Zaffre
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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