Agnes

A gripping story with twists and turns of shame, love, sorrow, betrayal and sisterhood against a backdrop of tumultuous times in Malaya


The year is 1914 and the fissures of war are spreading across Europe. A Russian cruiser The Zhemtchug is sunk off the coast of Penang by the German warship, The Emden.

A half-Oriental half-Russian baby is saved from drowning by a local fisherman and his son. An infant, with no name and without a birthplace, carried on the wind with no remembrance. This little miracle is given to the sisters at the Convent Light Street.

Named Agn s for she is holy and pure, she is raised as an orphan in Baby House. She stood out from an early age, a half-caste child, a keen learner who would trade cleaning and sewing chores for time spent with books. Agn s quickly learnt the unfairness of her birth.

Against the backdrop of the Second World War and the Malayan Emergency, Agn s' life is a patchwork of injustice, betrayal, love and death, friendship and sisterhood. But buried deep within Agn s is loss and an intense yearning to belong.

When Agn s is offered a second chance at rebuilding her shattered life, will she learn to embrace it or will she still live in the shadows of her past?