Sisters Under the Rising Sun

Morris, Heather

ISBN 10: 1760688355 / ISBN 13: 9781760688356

Published by Echo Publishing, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2023

About this Item

Large softcover, first Australian trade paperback edition, 474gms, 333 pages. This is a story of women in war. A testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and moderate page discolouration/spotting throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings.

Seller Inventory # AUSFIC15269

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sisters Under the Rising Sun
• Publisher: Echo Publishing, Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1760688355
• ISBN 13: 9781760688356
• Binding: Large Softcover
• Edition: First Australian Trade Paperback Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (As Issued)
• Weight: 0.47 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australian Fiction
  • General Fiction
  • Historical Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris.

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, 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 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.

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.