Once We Were There

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<strong>Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Book Cover Design</strong><br /><strong>Winner of the Penang Monthly Book Prize 2017</strong><br /><br />Journalist Delonix Regia chances upon the cultured and irresistible Omar amidst the upheaval of the Reformasi movement in Kuala Lumpur. As the city roils around them, they find solace in love, marriage, and then parenthood. But when their two-year-old daughter Alba is kidnapped, Del must confront the terrible secret of a city where babies are sold and girls trafficked. By turns heart-breaking and suspenseful,<em>Once We Were There</em> is a debut novel of profound insight. It is Bernice Chauly at her very best.

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Bernice Chauly is the award-winning author of five books of poetry and prose;<em>going there and coming back</em> (1997),<em>The Book of Sins</em> (2008),<em>Lost in KL</em> (2008),<em>Growing Up With Ghosts (2011) and<em>Onkalo</em> (2013). Born in George Town, Penang to Chinese-Punjabi teachers, she read Education and English Literature in Canada as a government scholar. She was an Honorary Fellow at the University of Iowas International Writing Program (IWP) in 2014, has served as Festival Director of the George Town Literary Festival since 2011, and currently lectures at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC). She lives in Kuala Lumpur with her two daughters.

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