In the late sixties when the Beatles are top of the charts and Twiggy is hitting the catwalk, Gill embarks on a life-changing journey to Hong Kong.
Gill introduces us to characters that fiction couldn’t have invented any better and transports the reader to another time and place, a reminder that anyone can fit the experiences of a lifetime into two short years..
The Hong Kong Letters is part memoir, part travelogue.
With her friends, she is reciting from Mao’s Little Red Book with no idea what fate awaits her or how long she will be held.
Yet Gill is very much alive.
A full-scale sea and air search mounted from Hong Kong can find no trace.
A weekend sail goes awry when a yacht with her on board strays into the waters of Communist China.
Attractive and naive, wined and dined by Hong Kong’s elite, she gravitates towards camaraderie outside the world of advertising and money, and adventure follows.
In this spirited memoir, where Mad Men meets Han Suyin’s A Many-Splendoured Thing, Gill recreates a Hong Kong of the imagination.
But it’s at an ad agency under insane direction where Gill finds her battles and learns to stand her ground.
Vietnam has become America’s longest war with no end in sight.
Mao’s revolution is at its height.
In the late sixties when the Beatles are top of the charts and Twiggy is hitting the catwalk, Gill embarks on a life-changing journey to Hong Kong
