She also wrote regular columns for the Ming Pao, and Jin Yong, the famous writer who founded the newspaper, praised her as the "best modern woman essayist".
Her lengthy extra-marital relationship with the celebrated songwriter Wong Jim garnered her media attention.
[citation needed] She published more than eighty books,[4] including Crazy (癡), Fate (缘), Alliance (盟) and The Burial of Youth (青春之葬).
[3] She was also a regular columnist for the Chinese-language newspapers Ming Pao and the Hong Kong Daily News,[6] praised by Jin Yong as the "best modern woman essayist".
[4][5] Lam found herself in the media spotlight for having maintained a 14-year extra-marital relationship with Wong Jim, the celebrated Hong Kong songwriter, which began in 1976 when they were both working for the broadcaster TVB; the affair caused the break-up of his first marriage.