If Fish Had a Wishbone - Anthony Hogger

The Pacific, 1942.�Japanese forces are attacking Singapore.�After months of chaos,�Australian Army nurse Lieutenant Vivian�Bullwinkel�and�sixty-four�colleagues�find themselves�ordered to abandon their hospitals and the wounded men in them.�Singapore�is lost, and their only hope of escape is aboard�the SS�Vyner�Brooke�and through the infamous strait�known as�Bomb Alley.�The ship lasts for two days before�it is�sunk by�Japanese bombers.�Vivian�and�her best friend, Nancy Harris,�are amongst the survivors who wash up on�Radji�Beach.�There's�no food and precious little medical supplies,�and they soon find they have little choice but to surrender themselves to the Japanese - whose soldiers are not known for their mercy.�Based�on the true story�of the nurses of the�Vyner�Brooke,�If Fish Had a Wishbone�is a gripping and powerful novel�of�friendship,�courage�and�fortitude�in the face of unimaginable terror.�For readers of�When We Had Wings�and�Angels of the Pacific.���