A lush novel set during the Japanese invasion of Malaya-from
the national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine.
Malaya, 1941. Connie Thornton plays her role as a dutiful
wife and mother without complaint. She is among the
fortunate, after all-a member of the British rubber
plantation owners, reaping the benefits of colonial life.
But Connie feels as though she is oppressed, crippled by
boredom, sweltering heat, and a loveless marriage...
Then in December the Japanese invade. Connie and her family
flee, sailing south on their yacht toward Singapore, where
the British are certain to stand firm against the Japanese.
En route, in the company of friends, they learn that
Singapore is already under siege. Increasingly desperate and
short of food, the yacht's inhabitants make their perilous
way from island to island. When a fighter plane crashes into
the sea, they rescue its Japanese pilot. For Connie, that's
when everything changes. In the suffocating confines of the
boat, with her life upended, Connie discovers a new kind of
freedom and an exciting, dangerous, exhilarating love.
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