I’ve been so busy working on Flo in the City that I’ve neglected Looking for Mrs. Peel, the book.
I wrote the play www.tighsolas.ca/page745.html about my grandmother, also Dorothy Nixon, who was tortured in the Double Tenth Incident at Changi POW Camp during WWII after doing a great deal of research.
A Canadian publisher said they’d love to see the book in narrative prose version, but I haven’t gotten around to it.
And now I see that Number 3 on the Amazon.com bestsellers list is a book about a man who survived torture in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp. “Unbroken: A WWII story of survival, resilience and redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand.
Hmm. My story is about survival and resilience, but not of redemption.. I don’t think. Maybe.
The woman who wrote Seabiscuit wrote this Unbroken book.