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A Painter in Penang
A Gripping Story of the Malayan Emergency
Author: Clare Flynn
Series: Penang Series #3
Narrator: Victoria Riley
Unabridged: 10 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Cranbrook Press
Published: 10/19/2020
Category: Fiction - Historical
Synopsis
Sixteen-year-old Jasmine Barrington hates everything about living in Kenya and longs to return to the island of Penang in British colonial Malaya where she was born. Expulsion from her Nairobi convent school offers a welcome escape – the chance to stay with her parents’ friends, Mary and Reggie Hyde-Underwood on their Penang rubber estate.But this is 1948 and communist insurgents are embarking on a reign of terror in what becomes the Malayan Emergency. Jasmine goes through testing experiences – confronting heartache, a shocking past secret and danger. Throughout it all, the one constant in her life is her passion for painting.From the international best-selling and award-winning author of The Pearl of Penang, this is a dramatic coming of age story, set against the backdrop of a tropical paradise torn apart by civil war.