From awardwinning author Ann Bennett comes a captivating WW2 novel of love and survival a daughters journey of discovery and a soldiers strength in the bleakest of times.When Laura Ellis, a successful city lawyer, arrives home to see her dying father Tom, a mysterious stranger is watching the house. This leads her to embark on a journey to discover their connection.To do so, she has to retrace her fathers steps to the Bridge on the River Kwai where as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, Tom endured disease, torture and endless days of slavery and to the beautiful island of Penang, to uncover his secrets from the 1930s.For Tom made himself a promise to return home. Not to the grey streets of London, where he once lived, but to Penang, where he found paradise and love.As Laura searches for the truths Tom refused to tell her, in the places where he once suffered, lived and loved, she will finally find out the story behind his survival, and discover her own path to love and happiness..A Daughters Quest was previously published as Bamboo Heart. It won the won the award for fiction published in Asia, Asian Books Blog, 2015.

Binding: Paperback;334 pages; Publisher: Andaman Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 484.69 g; Dimensions: N/A

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