Then Now

"Then Now was prompted by the discovery of letters written by Marlatt's father, Arthur Buckle, a young chartered accountant who left England to join a British accounting firm in multiracial Penang in the early 1930s and continued living, working, as well as marrying there until going on leave in 1941. A sense of looming war begins to permeate his letters. When her family returned to Penang post-wa...