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Author:
Morris, Heather.
Title:
Sisters under the rising sun / Heather Morris.
Edition:
Large print edition.
Publisher:
Center Point Large Print,
Copyright Date:
2024
Description:
500 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Chambers, Norah--Fiction.
Vyner Brooke (Ship)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Indonesia--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Singapore--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese--Fiction.
Prisoner-of-war camps--Fiction.
Nurses--Australia--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Large type books
Summary:
In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her 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. After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination.
ISBN:
1638089442
9781638089445
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1415857190
Locations:
GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

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