"Enjoy your homes. Enjoy your food. There is nothing that can take
their place." Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island,
Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore's infamous Changi Prison,
along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the
Second World War. They beat back pangs of hunger by playing
decadent games of make-believe and writing down recipes filled with
cream, raisins, chocolate, butter, cinnamon, ripe fruit-the
unattainable ingredients of peacetime, of home, of memory. In this
novelistic, immersive biography, Suzanne Evans presents a truly
individual account of WWII through the eyes of Ethel-mercurial,
enterprising, combative, stubborn, and wholly herself. The Taste of
Longing follows Ethel through the fall of Singapore in 1942, the
years of her internment, and beyond. As a prisoner, she devours dog
biscuits and book spines, befriends spiders and smugglers, and
endures torture and solitary confinement. As a free woman back in
Canada, she fights to build a life for herself in the midst of
trauma and burgeoning mental illness. Woven with vintage recipes
and transcribed tape recordings, the story of Ethel and her
fantastical POW Cookbook is a testament to the often-overlooked
strength of women in wartime. It's a story of the unbreakable power
of imagination, generosity, and pure heart.
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