The Singapore Grip

Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss: This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides.

Not only the Blacketts, their friends and enemies, but many individuals are caught up in the events. Singapore at this historical watershed has never been so faithfully and passionately recreated.

“A fine piece of work, solid, informative, funny, tragic, one of those novels that presents a whole world for the reader to inhabit-- Margaret Drabble”

One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation Spectator
Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholy Observer
Enjoyable on many different levels Sunday Times
A narrative of exceptional imagination and scope Newsweek
A fine piece of work, informative, funny tragic. One of those novels that present a whole world for the reader to inhabit Margaret Drabble
No writer has swallowed all of Singapore with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell Time
His brilliant of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow Olivia Manning

J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of his life abroad, including periods in France and North America, and then settled in London where he wrote most of his novels.Among his novels, TROUBLES won the Faber Memorial Prize in 1970 and the Lost Man Booker prize in 2010 and THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR won the Booker Prize in 1973.In April 1979 he went to live in County Cork where only four months later he was drowned in a fishing accident.

Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss: This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides.Not only the Blacketts, their friends and enemies, but many individuals are caught up in the events. Singapore at this historical watershed has never been so faithfully and passionately recreated.

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