The Fish Girl

<p>Sparked by the description of a ‘Malay trollope’ in W. Somerset Maugham’s story ‘The Four Dutchmen’ Mirandi Riwoe’s novella <em>The Fish Girl</em> tells of an Indonesian girl whose life is changed irrevocably when she moves from a small fishing village to work in the house of a Dutch merchant. There she finds both hardship and tenderness as her traditional past and colonial present collide.</p><p>Told with an exquisitely restrained voice and coloured with lush description this moving book will stay with you long after the last page.</p>