Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris - Fiction - Paperback

Details. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781786582218. Publisher: Zaffre. Overview. Sisters under the Rising Sun is a powerful work of historical fiction from Heather Morris, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Inspired by true events, this moving novel follows a group of women thrown together by the brutality of the Second World War in the Pacific. Told with the same compassion and narrative drive that made Morris a global phenomenon, it is a story of endurance, friendship and the extraordinary power of the human spirit under the harshest of conditions.. About the Book. It is 1942, and Singapore is falling to the invading Japanese Army. English musician Norah Chambers makes the agonising decision to place her eight-year-old daughter Sally on one of the last ships leaving the doomed island, desperate to keep her safe. Australian nurse Nesta James joins the terrified crowds crammed aboard the HMS Vyner Brooke alongside the heartbroken Norah. After just two days at sea, the ship is bombed and sunk, plunging its passengers into chaos and grief.. Nesta and Norah survive the wreck and reach the beaches of Sumatra, only to be captured by Japanese forces and interned in one of the notorious prisoner-of-war camps that scatter the region — places defined by starvation, disease and brutality. Yet even amid this suffering, the women find moments of transcendence: Norah forms a "voice orchestra," using music to lift the internees' spiri...