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The true story of China-born Janet Lim, who was sold into slavery as a young girl in 1930s Singapore. When Singapore falls to the Japanese in 1942, she escapes by ship, but when it’s bombed and sinks, Janet floats at sea for days close to death. Rescued by fishermen then captured by the Japanese, she narrowly escapes sexual-imprisonment as a comfort woman and is tortured. An inspirational autobiography of a true heroine.

Janet Lim holds a significant position in the modern history of Singapore: she was the first ever Asian nurse to be promoted to the position of matron in Singapore. After WWII, she settled permanently in Australia, where she now has three children and six grandchildren.
Twenty years after WWII, doctors discovered that Janet had suffered a ruptured spleen and bowel from jumping into the sea when the ship she was escaping Singapore on was bombed and sunk by the Japanese. That she did not succumb to her internal injuries during her two-day ordeal drifting at sea, Janet ascribes to God and salt water. Author resides in Brisbane, Australia.