by Helen Colijn.
The incredible story of the Dutch, English and Australian women who survived 3½ years of brutal imprisonment by the Japanese on Sumatra in WWII. These extraordinary women turned a situation of despair into a heroic symphony of triumph. Entirely from memory they wrote down and arranged orchestral and piano works of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and others, to perform in a vocal orchestra-a life-affirming symphony of human voices.
This book is the basis of a documentary of the same name and the inspiration for the movie Paradise Road starring Glenn Close.
216 pp. paperback
