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Heart Of Glass
2018
First Published
3.93
Average Rating
240
Number of Pages

Chicago 1980. Li-an Donohue’s luck changes the instant she meets a mysterious Italian businessman in the Drake Hotel. Hearing her play, he offers her a job in Macau on the spot. She’s there in a heartbeat. From a drab Chicago winter to swimming pools, Sémillon Blanc and lobster. It seems perfect. Li-an has her own private pavilion on the estate of a colonial gothic mansion. But easy livin’ is harder than she thought. She’s homesick. Lonely. And beginning to think it might not be all it seems. Until she meets slick New Yorker DJ, Ben. He is the ring-a-ding, the daddy cool of the club scene who shares her passion for – her obsession with – music. An island in China isn’t fun when you’re desperate to cut a recording deal, make it big in disco, he says. Ben has a secret plan. But it sure doesn’t sound like music to Li-an’s ears…

Avg Rating
3.93
Number of Ratings
54
5 STARS
46%
4 STARS
24%
3 STARS
11%
2 STARS
13%
1 STARS
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Author

Ivy Ngeow
Ivy Ngeow
Author · 4 books
Ivy Ngeow was born and raised in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. She holds an MA in Writing from Middlesex University, where she won the 2005 Middlesex University Literary Prize. She is a novelist and short story writer. Her debut, Cry of the Flying Rhino (2017), was awarded the International Proverse Prize in Hong Kong. Her novels include Heart of Glass (2018), Overboard (2020) and White Crane Strikes (2022). She is the commissioning editor of the Asian Anthology New Writing series. Her fifth novel, The American Boyfriend, is a psychological thriller longlisted for the Avons x Mushens Entertainment Prize for Commercial Fiction 2022 and is coming out on Penguin books in July 2023. She lives in London.
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