03669cam a2200529 4500 1023080007 TxAuBib 20231026120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250322821 1250322820 0fc8a567-17fc-4d75-a0b1-1a0517b18159 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9612799 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Morris, Heather. Sisters Under the Rising Sun [Libby Audiobook] : A Novel. Macmillan Audio, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 302MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 302MB. new york times bestselling author. tattooist of auschwitz author. strong women relationships. japanese dive bombers. based on true story. books about women. Camp Palembang. World War Two. Biographical . gifts for mom. gifts for her. heartwarming. suspenseful. sisterhood. Holocaust. Singapore. feminist. family. WWII. ww2. HTML:<p><b>This program is read by Laura Carmichael, who plays Lady Edith Crawley in <i>Downton Abbey.</i><br /></b><br /> <b>A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of</b> <i>The Tattooist of Auschwitz</i><b>, Heather Morris.</b><br /> 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.<br /> 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 <i>Vyner Brooke</i> merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the <i>Vyner Brooke</i> lies broken on the seabed.<br /> 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.<br /> <i>Sisters under the Rising Sun</i> 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 <i>The Tattooist of Auschwitz</i>, <i>Cilka's Journey</i> and <i>Three Sisters</i>.<br /> <b>A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.</b></p>. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-10-25 20:00:02. Carmichael, Laura, 1986-,. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0fc8a567-17fc-4d75-a0b1-1a0517b18159&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0fc8a567-17fc-4d75-a0b1-1a0517b18159&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)