A Richard and Judy summer book club pick<\/b><\/p>\n
‘One of the books of the decade’ – Richard Madeley<\/b><\/p>\n
The phenomenal new novel, based on a true story, <\/b>from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz<\/i>, Cilka’s Journey <\/i>and Three Sisters<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Singapore is burning. It is February 1942, and the Vyner Brooke<\/i> is sailing out of the harbour and to safety. On deck is an English musician, Norah Chambers, who gazes over the besieged city as the beautiful voices of the Australian nurses on board sing ‘Waltzing Matilda’.<\/p>\n
One of these nurses is Nesta James, a pint-sized rocket of a woman, who quells her fears by caring for the frightened people on board.<\/p>\n
But danger lies ahead. When Nesta and Norah meet at a female prisoner-of-war camp they must find strength and resilience they never knew they had. Can they work together to survive against all odds, and find hope in the darkest of days?<\/p>\n
Sisters under the Rising Sun<\/i> tells the inspiring true story of women at war and of the friendship and sisterhood that changed the generation that came after them.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the midst of WWII, 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. This novel is based on a true story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[26896],"class_list":["post-103772","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-general-fiction","product_tag-fiction-general-literary","pa_book_author-morris-heather","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-823-92-edition23","pa_edition-1st-paperback-ed","pa_imprint-zaffre","pa_language-english","pa_pages-9812","pa_publisher-zaffre","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n