The Singapore Grip

NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA, THE SINGAPORE GRIP IS A MODERN CLASSIC FROM THE BOOKER-PRIZE WINNING J.G. FARRELL

Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholyObserver

Enjoyable on many different levelsSunday Times

One of the most outstanding novelists of his generationSpectator

Singapore, 1939: Walter Blackett, ruthless rubber merchant, is head of British Singapores oldest and most powerful firm. And his familys prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. No one suspects it - but this world is poised on the edge of the abyss. This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore.

A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip is a modern classic.

A narrative of exceptional imagination and scopeNewsweek

A fine piece of work, informative, funny tragic. One of those novels that present a whole world for the reader to inhabit Margaret Drabble

No writer has swallowed all of Singapore with the verve and wit of the late J.G. FarrellTime

His brilliant of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow Olivia Manning