The Flamboya Tree A Family's War Time Courage

London: Arrow Books. Good+. 2003. Seventh Printing. Paperback. Some reading and cover creases, light shelf wear, slanted spine, somewhat thumbed, paper edge toned. ; Seventh printing of Arrow UK paperback original edition, 2003. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design uncredited with photo of author as a child over wrap around photo by Val Loh, Photonica. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; B&W Photographs; 304 pages; Clara Kelly was just four years old when the Japanese invaded the island of Java. Her family was separated, her father sent to work on the Burma railway, and she together with her mother and her two brothers, one a six-week-old baby, was sent to a 'women's camp'. They were interned there until the end of the war suffering the appalling deprivations all Japanese prisoners faced, impersonal brutality, lack of food. A moving tribute to those who suffered and the courage and resilience shown by the internees, most notably the author's mother. .