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On Far Malayan Shores

By: Tara Haigh, Jozef van der Voort - translator
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
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Summary

Hamburg, 1898. As Ella nurses her beloved adoptive father on his deathbed, he uses the last of his strength to scribble down a name: ‘Richard F’. Convinced this man must hold the key to her unknown origins, Ella hunts for more clues, uncovering years of unexplained monthly payments from the British colony of Malaya. With no other leads and nothing left in Hamburg, she sets sail for the Far East in search of the truth. 

The trail leads her to a rubber plantation owned by the Foster family - could they have something to do with the mysterious Mr F? But before she can find proof of her heritage, Ella is caught up in tensions between colonial forces and the Malayan resistance - in more ways than one. With a high-ranking official vying for her attention, how can she admit to anyone, let alone herself, that she’s fallen for a local rebel? 

As her head and heart struggle with the secrets that lie in her past and her present, Ella must ask herself what price she is willing to pay for the truth - and for freedom.
©2017 Tara Haigh (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2019 by Jozef van der Voort.
Literary Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Women's Fiction European 20th Century
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A lovely book beautifully narrated

I enjoyed the book with a lovely story of a women finding where she comes from.

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loved this book

Have been struggling to find a good book recently after listening to so many but really enjoyed this one. kept my interest all the way through.

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