Sisters Under the Rising Sun cover art

Sisters Under the Rising Sun

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Sisters Under the Rising Sun

By: Heather Morris
Narrated by: Laura Carmichael
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £32.99

Buy Now for £32.99

About this listen

The phenomenal new novel, based on a true story, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters.

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 the 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. The friendships they build with the dozens of other women in the camps will give them the hope, strength and camaraderie they need in order to stay alive.

Sisters under the Rising Sun tells the story of women in war: a novel of sisterhood, bravery and resilience in the darkest of circumstances.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a #3 Sunday Times bestseller from 5 May 2024

©2023 Heather Morris (P)2023 Bonnier Books UK 20th Century Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Heartfelt Inspiring Tear-jerking Thought-Provoking Survival War

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Penang Collection cover art
Five Chimneys cover art
Emilia cover art
The Girl Who Escaped From Auschwitz: cover art
The Secret Letter cover art
There's Something I Have to Tell You cover art
What Only We Know cover art
The Wife Who Risked Everything cover art
The Silence Before Dawn cover art
Angels of the Pacific cover art
The Midwife of Auschwitz cover art
Corrie Ten Boom: The Watchmaker's Daughter cover art
The Moon Gate cover art
When We Had Wings cover art
Grace in Mombasa cover art
The Bletchley Girls cover art
All stars
Most relevant
I cry at the end of every book Heather has written. Why? In awe and wonder of the stories of courage and bravery, and because I do not want the stories to end. Thank you for telling us the story of these sisters.

Another incredible story from Heather Morris

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A remarkable story of survival, strength, sadness and hope.
A must.
Great narrative - very good accents.

Thank you - wonderfully told

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This must be my most recommended audiobook. I’ve told so many people about it. Superbly written and perfectly narrated (I will forget the odd pronunciation of commandant…) I even listened to the entire author’s note!

Wonderful book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Very well written and narrated . The narrator was very good at all the diff accents . I do remember watching Tenco on the tv as a child , harrowing but wonderful to read / hear again the stories of all these very brave women ! 😓

Excellent but tragic as it actually happened

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A very good book, very well documented about the courage of a handful of women, taken prisoners, in the troubling times of WWII in Asia. Their courage, strength, resilience, love even their accomplishments in music are surprinsing! I believe many people should read this book!

A true, very strong story!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews