The Widening of Tolo Highway
A Hong Kong story of paranoia and protest
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2022
Summary
A Hong Kong story of paranoia and protest. Anna returns to face a past she never truly left behind.
It wasn’t the middle but the very edge of nowhere. It was always just a little too still.
It is 2017. Typhoon Hato has ripped through the streets of Hong Kong. National Day is looming. The momentum of the 2014 Umbrella Revolution has faded. British woman, Anna, has returned to her old village in the New Territories to search for Kallum, a disillusioned local activist, from whom …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789814954136 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9814954136 |
| Author: | Lucy Hamilton |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 19mm |
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About The Author
Lucy Hamilton
Lucy Hamilton grew up in Dronfield, a quiet town in the north of England. She lived briefly in Australia, before moving to Hong Kong, where she began work on her first novel, The Widening of Tolo Highway. The novel is a semi-fictional account of expatriate life in the New Territories, set against backdrop of the 2014 Umbrella Revolution. While writing Tolo Highway, she also trained as a Behaviour Analyst, dividing her time between the USA, Asia and the UK. In 2019, she completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield, where she had previously studied English Literature as an undergraduate. She now teaches in Stylistics at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.
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