Alice Clark-Platts > Quotes

“She's an ang moh, all right — the name that locals give expats in Singapore. It's not a compliment. It means 'red-haired'. Sunburnt, gin-soaked colonials, wild with heatstroke, screaming unchecked at their native servants.”
― Alice Clark-Platts, The Cove

“It's just motherhood, not rocket science, she reminds herself. The constant demands, the lack of sleep, the need for a well of patience deeper than the ocean itself. Every last bit of it is entirely normal.”
― Alice Clark-Platts, The Cove

“Monsoon makes many things strange.”
― Alice Clark-Platts, The Cove

“London, starting work at the property law firm Peller and Gerrard where she had now been employed for eight years. And”
― Alice Clark-Platts, The Flower Girls: the dark read-in-one-sitting thriller