Secrets of our hearts
By: Sarah Harrison
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sutton, Surrey, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780727880116
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Burma-Siam Railroad; Revenge; Social classes; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Prisoners and prisons; Singapore History Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 Fiction; Fiction; Changi POW Camp (Changi, Singapore); History
Work titles: Forests of the night
Description: They were both outsiders in their way. But it was in the class-ridden community of a boys' public school in 1929 that the first spark of conflict was struck between Butler, the rich man's son, and Maitland, the gardener's boy. The 'Jumbo' Oliphant, a witness to the confrontation, had no way of knowing the terrible conclusion to which it would lead. When Singapore falls to the Japanese in 1942, the paths of these three men cross again, in the notorious Changi internment camp, and the hatred between Butler and Maitland surfaces once more, transcending the brutalities of captivity to develop its own murderous momentum ...
Notes: Previously published as: The forests of the night.