The promise of rain
By: Donna Milner
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781847249524; 9781849162326
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Death; Psychology; Mothers; Fiction; Fathers and daughters; World War, 1939-1945; Psychological aspects; Japanese Prisoners and prisons
Description: Ethie was born after her father Howard returned from the war. He was one of two thousand Canadian soldiers sent to the Far East a month before Pearl Harbor. He was imprisoned by the Japanese. He hides more thann the physical and mental scars inflicted by his captors. Something happened in Hong Kong, a secret that has haunted him for two decades and one that could destroy his family should it ever come to light.