No Long Goodbyes

The tragedy of her husband killing her young son and then himself spurs Kate Cavanagh to leave England to start a new life in 1939 Burma. She finds happiness again when she marries Jack Bellamy, a teak plantation manager and widower with two young children. Her marital bliss is cut short when, in 1942, the Japanese invade Burma. Thinking his wife and children have flown to the safety of India, Jack joins the Bush Warfare School to subvert the Japanese invasion. But the Japanese bomb Myitkyina airfield. Evacuation flights to India are cancelled, leaving Kate and the children, along with tens of thousands of refugees, to brave the horrifying 250-mile trek to India. Crossing mountain ridges, monsoon-swollen rivers, trudging through swamps and dense jungle, takes its toll. Ill equipped and lacking food, thousands perish of starvation, disease, exhaustion and injury. After ten weeks, Kate's ragged, skeletal family crosses the mountain pass into India. Having lost one child to murder and another to a miscarriage on the trail, Kate vows not to lose another, and she doesn't. With her step-children and three other children she finds, Kate gets them safely out of Burma. Her next task is to find her husband.

• | Author: Pauline Hayton
• | Publisher: Ph Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jun 02, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 350 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 098358639X
• | ISBN-13: 9780983586395