I have just finished reading the book ;spending almost 10 hours with a few breaks in between, I actually have to tear myself from the computer screen (I got the e-book version) just to get some rest. It is simply the best non-fiction book I have read in a long time! Reading this book is like watching a TV drama of epic proportions unravelling before you. The Hardings should consider making this into a TV series! The writing style is easy to read and full of vivid details, I find myself fully immersed in the whole human drama that our heroine is experiencing. You just want to read chapter after chapter to discover what happened to the cast of characters and to add to the fact that this actually happened in Singapore is nothing short of mind boggling! This book is a required read for all Singaporeans! As a Singaporean reading it, I felt outraged, entertained and most of all enlightened!
Escape from Paradise Overview
Escape from Paradise is a contemporary and true woman’s story set in Singapore, Brunei, Australia, England, and the United States. It involves Singapore’s famous Tiger Balm family, and a wealthy and mysterious family from Brunei—and the link between them, a young Singaporean woman, May Chu Lee.
This story of May Chu’s escape from her arranged marriage to the United States, also involves an American, the current British Lord Chancellor, and an ex-CIA agent with Republican Party ties to George Bush, Sr., and now a prominent Washington lobbyist for Burma. For May Chu’s escape from her marriage into the Chung family and for divorce in Singapore, she needed more than a lawyer—she was forced to wage guerilla warfare against a powerful family with business interests in the United States, including an IPO of X-10 Wireless, currently under registration with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
From its first paragraph, the book draws the reader into the ambiance of a cosmopolitan Asia never touched upon by any other book …
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