Ealing local author Jean Brewster shares her grandmother’s story of life as a woman in Southeast Asia in the 20th century.
Missy Big Bungalow examines the effect of European men arriving in Siam and Malaya from 1900, but this is told – unusually – from an Asian woman’s point of view. That woman is the author’s grandmother, Chalerm, poor but beautiful and resourceful. To escape poverty,