About this Book

We meet Lim Yok, the son of a Kowloon farmer, Candy Rogerson, daughter of a British Banking firm, Su Wu, a child of the harbor, and Peter Marshall, an Australian activist now lecturer. These young people live in Hong Kong as the time approaches for the territories to be returned to the People's Republic of China. As they become politically active they go through trials and tribulations and meet in difficult times. They are young people so love is part of their world.The book follows their lives up to the fatal day of the Returning on July 1st 1997.The story starts in 1985 and revisits the scene in 1991, 1995 and 1997. The story and the principal characters are fiction but the story is set within the history of the times.