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Description

1. 391 pages : illustrations, music; 25 cm

Summary

1. "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"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject

1. Chambers, Norah > Fiction
2. James, Nesta, Sister > Fiction
3. Chambers, Norah
4. 1939-1945
5. Musicians > Fiction
6. Women musicians > Fiction
7. Nurses > Australia > Fiction
8. World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction
9. World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Fiction
10. World War, 1939-1945 > Evacuation of civilians > Malaysia > Malaya > Fiction
11. World War, 1939-1945 > Singapore > Fiction
12. World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese > Fiction
13. Prisoners of war > Fiction
14. Prisoner-of-war camps > Indonesia > Fiction
15. Female friendship > Fiction
16. Biographical fiction
17. Historical fiction
18. War stories
19. Friendships
20. Homosociality
21. Women's friendships
22. Musicians
23. Women musicians
24. Nurses
25. Women
26. Evacuation of civilians
27. Prisoners of war
28. Prisoner-of-war camps
29. Female friendship
30. Singapore > Fiction
31. Singapore
32. Australia
33. Malaya
34. Indonesia

Genre/Form

1. Historical fiction.
2. Fiction.
3. Novels.
4. Biographical fiction.
5. War fiction.

Call number

1. JFE 23-3432

Note

1. Originally published: London : Zaffre, 2023.
2. "Based mainly upon the real-life experiences of Australian nurse Sister Nesta James and English musician Norah Chambers"--Author's website.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Morris, Heather (Screenwriter), author.

Title

1. Sisters under the rising sun / Heather Morris.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Edition

1. First U.S. edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological term

1. 1939-1945

LCCN

1. 2023028577

ISBN

1. 9781250320551 (hardcover)
2. 1250320550 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. JFE 23-3432