Leave Me Not

The Far East is the romantic and colorful setting for this powerful story set in the late 1970's; tracing the deep and passionate love between Violet, a young girl of mixed parentage from Cameron Highlands in Peninsular Malaysia, and Atan bin Awang - a young man who lives in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah in East Malaysia formerly known as Borneo. The lovers exchange letters in a heady mixture of poetry, prose and everyday narrative which lays open their very souls. But the road to love is a cruel one, for tragedy lurks at every turn as love and death are remorselessly intertwined. 'Leave Me Not' is a novel which effortlessly reflects the thought patterns and philosophy of the culture in which it is set, yet its sentiments are essentially universal. A book of beauty and great feeling; it should be read with the senses rather than intellect.