On Borrowed Time is set in Hong Kong and Shanghai over the period 1996/1997 - including the handover of Hong Kong to China.
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Meanwhile, in Shanghai, a PhD student meets a woman with an unusual degree of interest in his research.
In Hong Kong Emma Janssen discovers the truth behind the death of her brother four years earlier.
The novel explores the choices that people have to make; in particular between doing what is easy and what is right.
On Borrowed Time is set in Hong Kong and Shanghai over the period 1996/1997 - including the handover of Hong Kong to China