How Long to Read In Search of Suzy Wong

How Long Does it Take to Read In Search of Suzy Wong?

It takes the average reader 3 hours to read In Search of Suzy Wong by Richard Ellison

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

It has always been a bit of a mystery to me as to why my wife Sue was born in Hong Kong in 1956 and why she had two birth certificates. So in December 2015, we set out together, following our wedding earlier in the year, on our honeymoon, to visit the place of her birth, on our way to the land of the Large White Cloud, New Zealand. This, my second book, tells the story of our brief visit to the former British colony, for a few days before Christmas and our experiences there sampling Christmas festivities and carol singing in Chinese. But it doesn't stop there as I had to find out the reason that John and Joyce Clacy, Sue's parents were in Hong Kong at the time. Was it just a convenient place to give birth to their second daughter, I had heard, that John was serving in the British Army. Or was there more to it than that? I had to find out. As I discovered more about John Clacy, I realised, as a civilian with no knowledge of what of what it was like to serve in a regiment of the British Army, serving at home and overseas, I just had to write about his time first as an infantryman with the Dorsets. This was in a post war world. The Dorsets do receive some prominence and then so do the Military Provost Staff Corps; I had never heard of them, the British Army's Prison Officers. his service was both at home and overseas. It was a real eye-opener to me and after all this could explain the reason behind Sue's exotic birthplace! As with my first book on Morocco, this story is also part travelogue describing our visit as tourists to bustling Hong Kong for the first time and our frustrating attempts to find the particular military hospital where Sue was born. But the difference this time was that I also look back, at the history of the former British colony and particularly on wartime and post-war Hong Kong and the other places where John served. Of course, I had to explain the reason for the title of the book and so it is Suzie Wong in her different guises who remains as the central character. Telling the tale, although this is definitely a work of non-fiction, led me from rural Dorset in the 1940s to Cyprus in the 1960s and many exotic places in between as I tried delve often with some difficulty behind the one-liners of John Clacy's army service record. I just had to know what it was like to be in the British Army and were all the stories I had heard and the films and television programmes I had seen, really true? I had to know. But although John is a significant player, many of the Clacy family have good character parts and so you could say that this is also part biographical. It is always surprising for the author when researching a particular family's history what is actually discovered and this story is no different. But I am not giving the game away here and here and you will just have to find out yourself. As Mark Twain said, "truth is often stranger than fiction."

How long is In Search of Suzy Wong?

In Search of Suzy Wong by Richard Ellison is 176 pages long, and a total of 45,056 words.

This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 55% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read In Search of Suzy Wong Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 6 minutes to read In Search of Suzy Wong aloud.

What Reading Level is In Search of Suzy Wong?

In Search of Suzy Wong is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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