A Daughter's Promise (Echoes of Empire) / Echoes of Empire (ePub)
A daughter's promise to her dying father, uncovers wartime secrets that cast dark shadows over three generations of one...
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From award-winning author, Ann Bennett, comes a captivating story of love and loss in World War 2.
A daughter's promise to her dying father, uncovers wartime secrets that cast dark shadows over three generations of one family.
In 2015, 90-year old Grace Summers receives some old sketches - the work of her deceased husband, Jack. One sketch is of a beautiful Indian woman in a street in Kuala Lumpur. This brings back bitter-sweet memories of the 1940s, when Grace met and married Jack, whose world had been torn apart by his time as a prisoner of war in Burma.
In 1988, Grace's daughter, Louise, embarks on a journey to Burma to fulfil a promise she made to Jack on his death-bed. She meets a young Burmese man, Zeya, an activist, and gets caught up in pro-democracy demonstrations, with tragic consequences.
In 2015, Louise and her daughter Eve, retrace Louise's steps to Myanmar, to research Jack's wartime experiences and to search for the girl in his sketch. But they are unprepared for the long-buried secrets their journey will unearth...
Her first book, 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 won the 2015 Asian Books Blog award for fiction published in Asia. Bamboo Island: The Planter's Wife, Bamboo Road: The Homecoming, The Tea Planter's Club and The Amulet, are all about WW2 in South East Asia.
She has also written The Lake Pavilion, set in British India in the 1930s, The Lake Palace, set in India during the Burma Campaign of WWII, The Lake Pagoda and The Lake Villa, both set in Indochina during WWII.
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 sons and a granddaughter, lives in Surrey and works as a lawyer.
- Autor: Ann Bennett
- 2023, Englisch
- Verlag: Ann Bennett
- ISBN-10: 8223715074
- ISBN-13: 9798223715078
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.2023
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