Ann Bennett

Bamboo Heart: A Daughter's Quest (Echoes of Empire) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

From award-winning author Ann Bennett comes a captivating WW2 novel of love and survival - a daughter's journey of discovery and a soldier's strength in the bleakest of times.

When Laura Ellis, a successful city lawyer, arrives home to see her dying father Tom, a mysterious stranger is watching the house. This leads her to embark on a journey to discover their connection.

To do so, she has to retrace her father's steps; to the Bridge on the River Kwai: where as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, Tom endured disease, torture and endless days of slavery; and to the beautiful island of Penang, to uncover his secrets from the 1930s.

For Tom made himself a promise: to return home. Not to the grey streets of London, where he once lived, but to Penang, where he found paradise and love.

As Laura searches for the truths Tom refused to tell her, in the places where he once suffered, lived and loved, she will finally find out the story behind his survival, and discover her own path to love and happiness..

The book has previously been published under both titles Bamboo Heart and A Daughter's Quest. It won tthe award for fiction published in Asia, Asian Books Blog, 2015 and was shortlisted in the best fiction category in the Singapore Book Prize in 2016.

Praise for Bamboo Heart: A Daughter's Quest.

'A powerful story brilliantly told. Five Stars.' Richard Kandler, author of The Prisoner List.

'This outstanding novel is a powerful reminder of what prisoners of the Japanese suffered...' Amazon reviewer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ann Bennett
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223718918
• Artikelnr.: 69067885

Autorenporträt

Ann Bennett was born in Pury End, a small village in Northamptonshire, UK and now lives in Surrey. She read Law at Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor. She started to write in earnest during a career break to have children.

Bamboo Heart: A Daughter's Quest was inspired by researching her father's experience as a prisoner of war on the Thai-Burma Railway. It has previously been published under the titles Bamboo Heart and A Daughter's Quest. It won first prize for fiction published in Asia, Asian Books Blog 2o15 and was shortlisted for the Best Fiction Title (Singapore Book Awards) in 2016.

It is the first book in a South East Asian WW2 collection which includes Bamboo Island: The Planter's Wife, Bamboo Road: The Homecoming, A Daughter's Promise, The Tea Planter's Club and The Amulet. All books are standalone stories, and they may be read in any order.

Ann has also written The Lake Pavilion, set in British India in the 1930s, The Lake Palace, set in India during the Burma Campaign of WW2, The Lake Pagoda, and The Lake Villa, both set in Indochina during WW2. Ann's other books, The Runaway Sisters, bestselling The Orphan House, The Child Without a Home, and The Forgotten Children are published by Bookouture.

Ann is married with three grown-up sons and a granddaughter and works as a lawyer. For more information please visit her website at annbennettauthor.com