‘I loved your reading so much. It was wonderful that you read so much of your book and with such Dickensian energy, verve and flair further enhancing your wonderful exquisite stories – especially those poignant-delicate endings. You really have a gift in ear and in performance – I particularly remember the brusque male authority figures and the sweet tamil ladies. I loved the references to oliver twist and ancient mariner and how they were lovingly ironically woven into the malay(si)an context of fifty years ago – the gruff teacher and the poor bamboozled boy at school hopelessly deferential. I have never encountered these figures but through your performance they really lived as if I were meeting them – that seems a good Dickensian trait as is your doing in text and performance “different voices” to quote ‘our mutual friend’.’
Angus Whitehead, Lecturer, English Language & Literature (ELL), NIE, Singapore
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