The Mushroom Years
Taken from a life of comfort and privilege and thrown into Weihsien prison camp in Japanese Occupied China, three young British girls face deprivation and hardship during the bitter years of World War II.
The Mushroom Years tells the story of the house arrest and eventual imprisonment of a British family in the Orient through the eyes of a teenager. Pamela and her sisters and her parents are caught with a few thousand innocent Allied Nationals in the harsh reality of War. Now, more than fifty years later, the author's intimate recollections of the horror, the humor, and the humanity that made survival possible for both prisoners and captors alike, allow us to experience in vivid detail a rare and relatively unknown aspect of World War II.
The author, PAMELA MASTERS (nee Simmons), tells of a serene existence suddenly spinning out of control, as she is transformed from a flippant teenager to a shaken survivor by the vagaries of war. We believe you, like the author, will never take life for granted again.
