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Author: Tan Twan Eng
Author Tan Twan Eng
Narrator Louise-Mai Newberry, David Oakes
Duration 11h 15m
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay.Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day. But he is...
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Author: Tan Twan Eng
Author Tan Twan Eng
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 16h
Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew up as a child. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malay...
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