{"product_id":"sisters-under-the-rising-sun-9781250322838","title":"Sisters Under the Rising Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis program is read by Laura Carmichael, who plays Lady Edith Crawley in \u003ci\u003eDownton Abbey. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt also includes a dedication, author's note, and two afterwords, all read by the author, as well as two songs by the Sydney Women's Vocal Orchestra with clips from both songs throughout the narration. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tattooist of Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e, Heather Morris.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSister 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 \u003ci\u003eVyner Brooke\u003c\/i\u003e merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the \u003ci\u003eVyner Brooke\u003c\/i\u003e lies broken on the seabed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSisters under the Rising Sun\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Tattooist of Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCilka's Journey\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThree Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHEATHER MORRIS is a native of New Zealand, now resident in Australia. For several years, while working in a large public hospital in Melbourne, she studied and wrote screenplays, one of which was optioned by an Academy Award-winning screenwriter in the US. In 2003, Heather was introduced to an elderly gentleman who 'might just have a story worth telling'. The day she met Lale Sokolov changed both their lives. Their friendship grew and Lale embarked on a journey of self-scrutiny, entrusting the innermost details of his life during the Holocaust to her. Heather originally wrote Lale's story as a screenplay - which ranked high in international competitions - before reshaping it into her debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MacMillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719775686930,"sku":"9781250322838","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4eca02c5-dbcc-4f56-954a-0e2d1bb946d0.jpg?v=1748589777","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sisters-under-the-rising-sun-9781250322838","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}