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'The Forgotten Promise' by Paula Greenless.


Wow!! Check this beauty out!!! I was lucky enough to be chosen as part of this cover reveal and cannot wait to read this myself!!! Check out the description, author info and find out where to get your copy below!!


Book Description


Malaya, 1920: Two girls make a promise in the shadows of the jungle. A promise that life won't

let them easily keep.

Malaya, 1941: Ella is running her late father's tin mine in the Kledang hills, while Noor works as

her cook.

When the war that felt so far away suddenly arrives on their doorstep, Ella is torn apart from her

family. Her daughter Grace is left in Noor's care as Japanese soldiers seize the mine.

Ella is forced to make an impossible choice that takes her to England, thousands of miles from

home. She is desperate to be reunited with her loved ones. But will the life she returns to be

anything like the life she left.





About The Author


Paula has lived in various places, including Singapore, where she was based for three years. It

was while living in Singapore that the first seeds of her debut novel, Journey to Paradise,

developed. The crumbling buildings and the modern high-rises popping up almost overnight

seemed to be a metaphor for the social diversity and change in Singapore at that time. However,

as a young mother living there, she wondered what it must have been like as a post-war colonial

wife living miles away from the familiarity of home. Despite the gloss and glamour of colonial

living, women were frequently stuck in unhappy marriages, often unable to follow careers or have

the independence to divorce if things went wrong – which they inevitably did.

Her writing, although set against exotic backgrounds, is set on the cusp of change – the shift

from colonial dominance to independence. She likes to dig into a variety of issues and her main

protagonist is, in many ways, a metaphor for the political and social events surrounding her at

that time. It isn’t always an easy journey, but in the end, success comes her way.

The Forgotten Promise tells the story of Ella, a young Eurasian woman, whose life is turned

upside down by the Japanese occupation of Malaya, and it is through her lens and that of Noor,

her cook, that the narrative is revealed.

As for Paula – she has always wanted to be a writer. As a little girl she used to spend hours

writing stories and turning them into books, even using flour and water as paste to stick the

pages together. She spent hours writing poetry and plays as a teenager and has always written

short stories in her spare time. It is this need to write and a love of reading that led her to take a

degree in English and European Thought and Literature, and later a Masters Degree in Creative

Writing.

Apart from her writing, Paula hosts a regular author interview on her website. You can find out

more about new and existing historical fiction authors, such as Liz Trenow, Frances Quinn and

Louise Fein, by hitting the ‘author interview tab.’

As a writer, she feels it is important to have a wide range of interests – not only does it adds

flavour and layering to prose, but allows it allows time for ideas to mull and to percolate. People

watching in cafés is one, long walks is another. And food! Good food is essential to her and she

loves to cook using the best ingredients she can find. As well as a love of travel, she is a keen

amateur photographer and her next trip takes her to Cambodia where she is hoping to discover

an exciting hook for a new book - you can find out more about her progress there by following

her on Instagram.

Paula has a grown up daughter and lives in Warwickshire with her husband and an extremely

friendly Labrador.


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