She wrote, "Neatly weaving in snappy, comic summaries of Singapore history as well as the commercial and cultural forces that shaped the trajectory of World War II in South-east Asia and China".

The story follows a British family who control one of the colony's leading trading companies.

[1] "A brilliant, complex, richly absurd and melancholy monument to the follies and splendours of Empire", wrote Hilary Spurling for The Times Literary Supplement.

[3] Luke Treadaway, David Morrissey and Elizabeth Tan star in the "epic and ambitious" TV adaptation of Booker Prize winner J.G.

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