Mothers Swam

Korea – a land of jagged green mountains between two seas. For thirty years it has been ruled by Japan, and as the Second World War rages it is far from the imaginations of those in the west.

Sun-a is a Korean ‘Comfort Woman’; Mick Bowler an English soldier, boy become veteran in the jungles of Burma. When their flight from Japanese imprisonment brings them together they begin a desperate escape across the mountains of Korea. Pursuing them, a relentless Military Surgeon, clinging to a Japanese past, set to crumble around him.

Mothers Swam is a story reaching across continents, from The Empire of the Sun, to the Busan Perimeter. It tells of a tragic, yet hopeful journey, of a beautiful land torn apart, and of a love battling to survive and rise through an era.