In 1935, 14-year-old Judith Dunbar is left at boarding school in England when her mother and sister join her father in Singapore. In a coming-of-age story spanning some 10 years (and nearly 1000 pages), Judith weathers life, love and loss against a well-drawn backdrop of WW II and a continuing search for a place she can call home. Against expectations, I found it unputdownable.
(Siobhan Thomson - bwl 25 August 2004 ) |
