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I enjoyed this historical fiction based on real events. In 1921 Lesley and Robert Hamlyn are a British couple living in the colony of the Federated Malay States. They are visited by famous writer Sommerset Maugham, who discovers a past connection between Lesley and Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen, which proves more surprising and entertaining than he could have imagined. Love, friendship and sexuality at that time and place were complicated.