A Painter in Penang, Clare Flynn
A Painter in Penang, Clare Flynn
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A Painter in Penang
A Gripping Story of the Malayan Emergency

Author: Clare Flynn

Narrator: Victoria Riley

Unabridged: 10 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/19/2020

Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old Jasmine Barrington hates everything about living in Kenya and longs to return to the island of Penang in British colonial Malaya where she was born. Expulsion from her Nairobi convent school offers a welcome escape – the chance to stay with her parents’ friends, Mary and Reggie Hyde-Underwood on their Penang rubber estate.But this is 1948 and communist insurgents are embarking on a reign of terror in what becomes the Malayan Emergency. Jasmine goes through testing experiences – confronting heartache, a shocking past secret and danger. Throughout it all, the one constant in her life is her passion for painting.From the international best-selling and award-winning author of The Pearl of Penang, this is a dramatic coming of age story, set against the backdrop of a tropical paradise torn apart by civil war.

About Clare Flynn

Award-winning author, Clare Flynn is a former global marketing director. She lives on the south coast of England. Her first novel, A Greater World, set in the Blue Mountains of Australia in the 1920s, was awarded an Indie BRAG Medallion in 2015. Kurinji Flowers, a gripping story of love and loss set in colonial India on a tea plantation in the 1930s and 40s, also gained a BRAG Award in 2015. Letters from a Patchwork Quilt, achieved a 5 Star Medallion from Readers' Favorite. The Green Ribbons is set in rural England in 1900 and has also been honored with a coveted BRAG Medallion.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karren on October 08, 2020

Jasmine Barrington is sixteen; she’s living with her step-mother Evie, her step-father Arthur and brother Hugh in Nairobi in Kenya. Evie is horrified when she realizes Jasmine is absolutely miserable, she hates school, she's been expelled and misses her homeland of Penang in Malay. Evie loves Jasmin......more

Goodreads review by Liza on October 04, 2020

After devouring the first two books in this series, The Pearl of Penang and Prisoner in Penang, I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting the characters and the exotic setting in the third story, A Painter in Penang. While this book can certainly be read as a standalone, I would recommend reading the first two......more

Goodreads review by Jane on September 30, 2020

The Painter of Penang is the third book in Clare Flynn’s Penang series. It sees Evie and Arthur, who met during the first book, happily settled in Nairobi with their children Hugh, from Evie’s first marriage, and Jasmine, the daughter of Evie’s first husband. However sixteen year old Jasmine has fai......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on April 04, 2021

Really enjoyed all three books in this Malaysian trilogy. They won't win any literary prizes but the descriptions of post-war Penang in A Painter in Penang really bring the Malayan Emergency to life and not always in the best light for its Colonial rulers.......more

Goodreads review by Monica on September 30, 2020

Loved this book! I have read the previous books in the series, but you can read this book as a standalone if need be. It is better to read the series though, because the other books are a fabulous read too and they give you a good background of the main characters. Young Jasmine finds herself in a t......more

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