| The Shallow Seas: A Tale of Two Towns, Singapore and Batavia Contributor(s): Farnham, Dawn (Author) |
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ISBN: 9814423602 ISBN-13: 9789814423601 Publisher: Monsoon Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Historical - General |
| Dewey: 823.92 |
| Series: Straits Quartet |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" (0.75 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Volume 2 of The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is nineteen, pregnant, and alone in 1842. She is fleeing a scandalous liaison with her married Chinese lover, a liaison which would bring ruin on him, herself, and her brother, Robert, Singapore's Chief of Police. When Tigran Manouk, forty, and the richest merchant in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, asks for her hand in marriage, the choice is no choice. Through loss and pain, Charlotte will find a way to make a life with a man she does not love in a town she does not understand. Until she returns to Singapore, to the town where the man she loves waits for her, to face the hardest decision of her life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Farnham, Dawn: - Dawn Farnham lives in Singapore where she is a volunteer guide at the Peranakan Museum and the Asian Civilisations Museum. It is in this thriving port city-state that she found her muse and began to write, finding particular pleasure in Singapore's colourful and often wild past. For more information about Dawn Farnham and her books, visit www.dawnfarnham.com. |