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The Shallow Seas
A Tale of Two Towns, Singapore and Batavia
Part of The Straits Quartet
By Dawn Farnham
Published by Monsoon
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
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.
Product Details
- Publisher: Monsoon (April 7, 2015)
- Length: 328 pages
- ISBN13: 9789814423601
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Immaculately researched
– The Daily Telegraph
Multiple protagonists and perspectives, both Eastern and Western, and elaborate description transport the reader to a fascinating time and place brimming with mystical and poetic flourishes.
– Booklist
Exceptionally well-written … A beautiful story to relish on every page
– Review of the Historical Novels Society
Rollicking saga … a brilliant evocation of the settlement in its early days, both in its physical details and socio-cultural nuances.
– Expat Living, Singapore
Thoroughly enjoyable historical romance
– Lifestyle, Singapore
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