A Different Sky

by Meira Chand

A dazzling novel telling the history of Singapore through the moving stories of three families whose lives become intertwined.
Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this inbetween island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese dynasty but yearns to free herself from its stifling traditions; ten-year-old Howard seethes at the indignities heaped on his fellow Eurasians by the colonial British; Raj, fresh off the boat from India, wants only to work hard and become a successful businessman. As the years pass, and the Second World War sweeps through the east, with the Japanese occupying Singapore, the three are thrown together in unexpected ways, and tested to breaking point.

Richly evocative, A Different Sky paints a scintillating panorama of thirty tumultuous years in Singapore’s history through the passions and struggles of characters the reader will find it hard to forget.

(From Publisher).

The author of seven previous novels, Meira Chand is of Indian-Swiss parentage. Born and educated in London, she spent many years in Japan before moving to Singapore in 1997.

A breathtaking novel, it tells the story of three families caught up in the tumultuous history of Singapore. Meira paints a vivid panorama of Singapore society through the loves and struggles of characters which the reader will find it hard to forget.