The Singapore Grip The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Longlist (2015) It was about living

It was about living

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And it is the story of how they found a way to go on living even when facing a future of no hope and slow death

of which the local efforts of British abolition campaigns were a part

The Singapore Grip The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Longlist (2015) It was about livingSingapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian.