Four full-length novels – The Pearl of Penang, Prisoner from Penang, A Painter in Penang and Jasmine in Paris: Far from Penang – set before, during and after World War 2, on the beautiful Far Eastern island of Penang and beyond.

Follow four courageous women as they battle love, loss and war – a moving exploration of female strength against hostility and despair.

In The Pearl of Penang, Evie receives a marriage proposal from widowed plantation-owner Douglas. But will the wonderful new life he offers her, on the exotic island of Penang, live up to her expectations?

In Prisoner from Penang, Evie’s friend Mary has fled to safety in Singapore to escape the Japanese attack of Penang. But she soon finds herself captured an imprisoned on Sumatra, where she and her fellow female prisoners must summon all their strength to survive.

In A Painter in Penang, Evie’s teenage stepdaughter Jasmine returns with excitement to her Penang birthplace. But an emerging civil war will draw her into the danger and secrets of an adult world.

And in Jasmine in Paris: Far from Penang, Jasmine heads for Paris and the prestigious Beaux Arts school. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Howard, the man to whom she owes her life, faces the daily dangers of the Malayan Emergency.

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