From Wuhan to Demerara – A tale of love, new starts and yearning

Like Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit, where the main character leaves England and nearly dies in an Ohio swamp called Eden, the harshness of the yet-to-be-tamed terrain in colonial Guyana is somehow lightened by the characters we meet during the journey. [...] This is a hard-to-put-down book, using the established epistolary technique of telling the main protagonist’s story through letters alongside internal monologue to paint a compelling tale of life in 1870s China and Guyana.