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The Hills of Singapore

A Landscape of Loss, Longing and Love

{ The Straits Quartet, Vol.3 }

Dawn Farnham

Young, beautiful and wealthy, widow Charlotte Macleod leaves Batavia in the 1850s and returns to Singapore for the English education of her two young sons. She is determined not to be drawn back into a secret affair with Zhen, the married Chinese merchant, triad-member and man she loves who is, unbeknownst to him, the father of her eldest son, Alex. Charlotte is convinced she can find happiness in a respectable marriage with the attractive but reticent Captain Maitland. But when murder and death strike, Singapore erupts in the violence of triad wars and Zhen's growing affection for Alex gives cause for alarm, she must make some hard decisions, for her children and herself. This is the third volume in The Straits Quartet.

Drawing on the real-life historical personalities of the time, Dawn Farnham mixes fact and fiction to paint a rich portrait of midnineteenth century Singapore and the realm of the White Rajah of Sarawak, at a time when triads, piracy and crime were rife and life in colonial Southeast Asia was anything but safe.

First published in print in 2007 by Monsoon Books

This electronic edition published in 2011 by Monsoon Books

ISBN (epub): 978-981-4358-40-8

ISBN (paperback): 978-981-05-7567-0

Copyright©Dawn Farnham, 2007

Cover photograph©National Museum of Singapore, National Heritage Board

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