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Barbed Wire Between Us: A Story of Love and War
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Kenelm Digby and Mutal Fielder met on a P&O liner returning to the Far East from England on the eve of the Second World War. As a 21-year-old undergraduate, Kenelm had made headlines when he took part in the notorious 1933 'King and Country' debate at the Oxford Union. Now he was on his way to Kuching as legal adviser to Sir Vyner Brooke, last of the legendary White Rajahs of Sarawak.
Mutal, who had trained as a ballet dancer in London and Paris, was returning to Hong Kong where she and her parents enjoyed a life of privilege and comfort within the upper ranks of the British expatriates.
The young couple's shipboard romance led to their engagement in Singapore, but their idyllic world soon came crashing around them when the Japanese invaded Hong Kong and Sarawak at Christmas 1941.
Kenelm spent the next three and a half years interned in Kuching. Mutal, with her parents, spent the war in the humiliating and squalid conditions at Stanley Internment Camp, separated from her fiance by barbed wire and the South China Sea.
Constantly hungry and often sick, Mutal used her resourcefulness to survive and be reunited with Kenelm after the war. The couple eventually made their home in New Zealand.
In Barbed Wire Between Us, Kenelm and Mutal Digby recall, with courage and an extraordinary lack of bitterness, their lives before the war and the years they spent as prisoners of the Japanese. This moving and memorable book pays tribute to a remarkable couple and opens a fascinating window on a tumultuous period of world history.
Kenelm Digby and Mutal Fielder met on a P&O liner returning to the Far East from England on the eve of the Second World War. As a 21-year-old undergraduate, Kenelm had made headlines when he took part in the notorious 1933 'King and Country' debate at the Oxford Union. Now he was on his way to Kuching as legal adviser to Sir Vyner Brooke, last of the legendary White Rajahs of Sarawak.
Mutal, who had trained as a ballet dancer in London and Paris, was returning to Hong Kong where she and her parents enjoyed a life of privilege and comfort within the upper ranks of the British expatriates.
The young couple's shipboard romance led to their engagement in Singapore, but their idyllic world soon came crashing around them when the Japanese invaded Hong Kong and Sarawak at Christmas 1941.
Kenelm spent the next three and a half years interned in Kuching. Mutal, with her parents, spent the war in the humiliating and squalid conditions at Stanley Internment Camp, separated from her fiance by barbed wire and the South China Sea.
Constantly hungry and often sick, Mutal used her resourcefulness to survive and be reunited with Kenelm after the war. The couple eventually made their home in New Zealand.
In Barbed Wire Between Us, Kenelm and Mutal Digby recall, with courage and an extraordinary lack of bitterness, their lives before the war and the years they spent as prisoners of the Japanese. This moving and memorable book pays tribute to a remarkable couple and opens a fascinating window on a tumultuous period of world history.
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