Seven top novels of sisterhood

Rachel Mills is Director and literary agent at Rachel Mills Literary.

She is a regular contributor across UK media, including The Telegraph, Front Row, The Times and as a columnist for the Bookseller.

Her new novel is The Players Club.

At Lit Hub Mills tagged seven novels featuring some of her favorite fictional sisters. One title on the list:

White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht

This is the most powerful story about two Korean sisters separated during Japanese occupation in WW2—Hana is taken to Japan and forced to become a comfort woman, meanwhile Emi left behind grows up and spends her life searching for her lost sister. The sisters are bonded not only by blood—they are haenyeo, the remarkable free diving women who can hold their breath and reach incredible depths in the ocean to catch fish. Alongside the heartbreaking testament to what many Korean women faced in the war, I read it as a story of how sisters need each other to keep their family’s sacred wisdom alive—the skill of diving, like so many skills, is passed down only through the female line.

Read about the other novels on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue