Ovidia Yu is one of Singapore's best-known and most acclaimed writers. She has had over thirty plays produced and is the author of a number of comic mysteries published in Singapore, India, Japan and America. She received a Fulbright to the University of Iowa's International Writers Program and has been a writing fellow at the National University of Singapore and was awarded the S.E.A. Write Award for Singapore.
'Charming and fascinating with great authentic feel. Ovidia Yu's
teenage Chinese sleuth gives us an insight into a very different
culture and time. This book is exactly why I love historical
novels'
--Rhys Bowen
'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is
brought richly to life'
--CATRIONA MCPHERSON
'Unassuming, brilliantly observant'
--SCMP
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