Diary of a Girl in Changi

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In 1941, at the age of 17, Sheila Allan's life was plunged into a nightmare. For the next three-and-a-half-years she was a prisoner of the Japanese in Changi Prison and Sime Road Camp. Diary of a Girl in Changi is the moving personal account of a young girl living in the midst of hardship and adversity. Written on scraps of paper which were kept hidden in her quarters, Sheila Allan's diary is a record of the daily lives of those interned in Changi. On the one hand, these were years of wasted youth; on the other, they provided a rich learning experience in a community of close comradeship. Tolerance, humour and creativity, and above all, an undying hope for the future, colour her memories of this period.