Han Suyin was born in China in 1917. A prominent documentarist of the political turbulence of her home nation throughout the twentieth century, she is best known for her autobiographical novel A Many-Splendoured Thing. She wrote more than 20 books, set up and funded multiple literary foundations, and practised as a physician after attending medical school in Peking and London.She died in 2012.

"This short and intense shock of a book transports us to the dark streets of wartime London to experience the pleasures and pains of forbidden love" Cathy Rentzenbrink

Han Suyin was born in China in 1917. A prominent documentarist of the political turbulence of her home nation throughout the twentieth century, she is best known for her autobiographical novel A Many-Splendoured Thing. She wrote more than 20 books, set up and funded multiple literary foundations, and practised as a physician after attending medical school in Peking and London.She died in 2012.

"This short and intense shock of a book transports us to the dark streets of wartime London to experience the pleasures and pains of forbidden love" Cathy Rentzenbrink