Sisters under the Rising Sun (eBook)

A powerful story from the author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Heather Morris (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
400 Seiten
Bonnier Publishing Fiction (Verlag)
978-1-78658-223-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 2024Don't miss out on THE WISH - the new Heather Morris novel of unexpected friendship, love and legacy. Out now in hardback, ebook and audiobook.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: ANZACS • Asia Pacific • Australia • banka island • bravery • Choir • Cilka’s Journey • Courage • Emotional • Empire Of The Sun • fall of Singapore • fall of Singapore, women • Family • found family • Friendship • heartbreak • Heartbreaking • Heather Morris • historical fiction • Hope • Japan • japanese army • Malaya • Malaya, soldiers • music • nurses • Paradise Road • Pearl Harbor • Pearl Harbour • POWs • Prisoner of War • Resilience • resourcefulness • Sacrifice • Second World War • Shipwreck • Singapore • Sisterhood • Sisters in Arms • soldiers • stories of hope • Suffering • Sumatra • Survival • tenko • the narrow road to the deep north • The Narrow Road to the North • The Tattooist of Auschwitz • Three Sisters • True story • Unbroken • Viner Brooke • voice orchestra • Vyner Brooke • War in the Pacific • war nurses • Women • women in war • World War Two
• ISBN-10: 1-78658-223-6 / 1786582236
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78658-223-2 / 9781786582232