The Song of the Lotus Flower

1967. Jude Murphy has never taken no for an answer. When her editor refuses to send her to Vietnam, she books her own flight to Saigon – typewriter in her luggage, borrowed camera over her shoulder. A journalist without a paper, a woman in a man’s war, determined to tell the truth that her country would rather keep quiet.

Once there, Jude fights the authorities for her right to report. While waiting to join a platoon, she meets a young American soldier whose warmth and idealism starkly contrast with her growing cynicism about the war, opening her eyes – and her heart – in ways she never expected. But after she’s captured behind enemy lines, Jude faces an impossible choice: protect the people who saved her, or expose the devastating truths her reporting has uncovered?

She’ll risk everything to bear witness. But first she has to survive.

This moving and unforgettable novel is inspired by the true stories of women whose courage, sacrifice and humanity the history books quietly erased. For fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Women and The Nightingale.