The wetnurse has swapped the babies.One alive child for one newly dead.Sylvaine's belly is empty and vacant, but her breasts are still full of white unctuous milk. Milk that is far more valuable to the world than her role as her baby's mother. Facing poverty, she has no choice but to pull her own child away from its life source and take in another woman's child in its place.One night under a burning red moon, deep in the forest near ...

"We owe you our lives, Sergeant, but you are our worst nightmare . . ."Burma, 1852. Sergeant Arthur Bowman, a sergeant in the East India Company, is sent on a secret mission during the Second Anglo-Burmese War. But the expedition is foiled - his men are captured and tortured. Throughout their ordeal, a single word becomes Bowman's mantra, a word that will stiffen their powers of endurance in the face of unimaginable suffering: "Survival". But for all that, only a h...