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‘Thrilling...filled with adventure, tragedy and love'Daily Mail ‘If you were to relocate Michael Morpurgo's War Horse to Burma in the Second World War, with elephants taking the sentimental role from the horses, you might end up with something like Elephant Moon'Literary Review As the Second World War rages, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma and the British rulers prepare to flee. But the human legacy of the British Empire will be left behind in the shape of sixty-two Anglo-Burmese children, born to local women after affairs with foreign men. Half-castes, they are not acknowledged by either side and they are to be abandoned with no one to protect them. Their teacher, Grace Collins, a young Englishwoman, refuses to join the European evacuation and instead sets out to deliver the orphans to the safety of India. She faces impossible odds because between her and India lie one thousand miles of jungle, mountains, rivers and the constant, unseen threat of the Japanese. With Japanese soldiers chasing them down, the group s chances of survival shrink - until they come across a herd of fifty-three elephants who, with their awesome strength and kindness, quickly become the orphans only

Who reads Elephant Moon?

Author

John Sweeney

Publisher

Silvertail Books

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781909269095

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.74 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14