With the intensifying Communist menace in post-war Malaya …
Enigmatic characters return in this poignant sequel, the English Colonel on a mission to expunge twenty wasted years, one woman’s quest to find deliverance from haunting shadows and another trying to escape the present, stretching across the waves to an epic confrontation in the diaspora that was the Malayan Emergency in this multi-layered tale of tragedy and triumph.
Against the background of Britain’s greatest military humiliation …
A duplicitous Chinese hostess and a vicious reprisal by her consort, a British traitor, together link an Australian engineer Richard, an enchanting English doctor Greda, and her philandering husband, propelling them into an uncertain destiny. Singapore under siege, they confront a wretched paradigm where professions of abiding love collide with honour in this gripping, emotional story.