On Borrowed Time is set in Hong Kong and Shanghai over the period 1996/1997 - including the handover of Hong Kong to China.
The novel explores the choices that people have to make; in particular between doing what is easy and what is right.
In Hong Kong Emma Janssen discovers the truth behind the death of her brother four years earlier.
Meanwhile, in Shanghai, a PhD student meets a woman with an unusual degree of interest in his research.
These storylines conve.
Rodrigues Court Press On borrowed time, paperback/graeme hall
