A shocking and moving war memoir told from the perspective of a young child interned in a brutally violent Japanese war camp during World War Two. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas meets Rabbit-Proof Fence in this startling and unique autobiography of a childhood spent in captivity.
Clara Olink Kelly now lives in Bellingham, Washington with her husband. She spends much of her time with her children and grandchildren. The Flamboya Tree is her first book.
The Flamboya Tree is that rare treasure - a memoir so powerful and
vivid that it draws the past into the present and makes us all
history's creatures.
*Amanda Foreman, winner of the Whitbread Award for Biography*
A moving, immediate account of a relatively unknown wartime drama -
unforgettable
*Booklist*
A wrenching memoir - these stories clearly demonstrate that
terrible atrocities are committed - justified even - in the name of
war
*Seattle Times*
Kelly's survival and her book is, in effect, the most moving
tribute to her remarkable mother, whose courage and indomitable
spirit kept the family alive
*Daily Mail*
Fascinating
*People Magazine*
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