The Thorn of Lion City: A Memoir » (Reprint)

Lucy Lum grew up in Singapore and moved to England in 1970. She lives in London.

This evocative memoir of a little girl's upbringing in an immigrant Chinese family in Singapore in the 1940s illuminates life during the Japanese occupation and the powerful relationship between a father and daughter

Asian American Press

A highly engrossing . . . [and] truly magnificent memoir. It contains equal parts death, delight, dread and hope . . . [A]n immense and touching book.