1942. Singapore is falling to the Japanese army. English musician Norah Chambers places her
eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore desperate to keep her safe. As the
island burns Australian nurse Nesta James joins the terrified cargo of people including the
heartbroken Norah crammed aboard HMS Vyner Brooke . After only two days at sea the ship is
bombarded and sunk. Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of Indonesia only to be captured and
held in one of the notorious Japanese POW camps places of starvation and brutality. But even
here joy can be found in music where Norah' s ' voice orchestra' transports the
internees from squalor into light. Sisters in arms Norah and Nesta devote themselves to the
women' s survival while discovering their own extraordinary reserves of courage love and
strength. Sisters under the Rising Sun is a story of women in war: 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. ' I read it with my
heart in my mouth. What a story. I finished it weeping.' Elizabeth Buchan author of Two
Women of Rome
