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Rose Gan

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British by birth, Rose Gan first arrived in Kuala Lumpur in 1978 and has been living and working between both UK and Southeast Asia ever since.

Married to a Malaysian, and formerly a teacher of History and Latin in Manchester and in Malaysia, Gan was also Vice Chair for Museums of the Indonesian Heritage Society, a guide and docent in Museum National Indonesia, Jakarta, and Muzium Negara and the Textile Museum in KL.

In addition to lecturing to cultural associations, Gan has been actively involved with museum publications in Malaysia and Indonesia, both as a writer and editor.

This is Gan's first published novel, from a forthcoming trilogy, although she wrote her first book aged eight. It took her another fifty years to create this series. T ...more

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