When the author arrived in London she began a diary which became the seed for this romantic comedy - written in deliberately bad English - about a Chinese girl's attempts to understand the language, weird customs and attitudes she encounters. Then she meets an Englishman who changes everything and she enters a new world of sex, freedom and self-discovery in which she learns that the Chinese meaning of Love is sometimes different to that of the West's.
*Shortlisted for the Orange Broadband prize for fiction 2007
(Jenny Baker - bwl 41 August 2007 ) |
