The American Boyfriend by Ivy Ngeow
Phoebe Wong would do anything to escape a British winter. But it may cost her more than her airfare.Sunsets, tacos and margaritas all sound perfect to exhausted forty-three-year old single mum Phoebe with a dead-end job in Southwark. When her long distance boyfriend in New York invites her to meet him in Florida, she couldn't wait to jump on a plane with her toddler. Arriving with her teething child at her boyfriend's Key West 'vacay home' before him, she is robbed on her first night. With no money, cards or passports, she is grateful for the support of friendly locals. At a BBQ, she meets an old expat British businessman. Her boyfriend
arrives eventually, apologetic, and takes her out to a posh seafood dinner. But when the British expat is shot that night in the same restaurant's car park, Phoebe is trapped in a put-up job, and her boyfriend's delayed arrival is suspiciously timed. If this place has turned darker and chillier than London, she wants out.
Will she be able to pull herself and her daughter away from danger?
IVY NGEOW was born and raised in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. A graduate of the Middlesex University Writing MA programme, Ivy won the 2005 Middlesex University Press Literary Prize out of almost 1500 entrants worldwide. She has written non-fiction for Marie Claire, The Star, The New Straits Times, South London Society of Architects' Newsletter and Wimbledon magazine. Her fiction has appeared in Silverfish New Writing anthologies twice, The New Writer and on the BBC World Service. Her story 'Funny Mountain' was published by Fixi Novo in an anthology Hungry in Ipoh. Ivy won first prize in the Commonwealth Essay Writing Competition 1994, first prize in the Barnes and Noble Career Essay Writing competition 1998 and was shortlisted for the David T K Wong Fellowship 1998 and the Ian St James Award 1999. Her debut novel, Cry of the Flying Rhino, won the Proverse Prize 2016. Ivy has been a highly-accomplished multi-instrumental musician since childhood and won fifth prize (out of 850 entrants) in the 2006 1-MIC (Music Industry Charts) UK Award for her original song, 'Celebrity'. Her second novel, Heart of Glass, will soon be published by Unbound (UK).
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| ISBN 13 | 9789815127065 |
| ISBN 10 | 9815127063 |
| Title | The American Boyfriend |
| Author | Ivy Ngeow |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Year published | 2023-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 212 |
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