Claire
By (Author) Ho Lin Lee
Penguin Random House SEA
Penguin Random House SEA
12th August 2025
Singapore
General
Fiction
Paperback
Width 1mm, Height 1mm, Spine 1mm
1g
Parallel worlds converge in this cosmic tale of love and loss, hope, and redemption Claire, a book editor, is entangled in an affair with a married man. After a hit-and-run accident leaves her in a coma, she awakens to a reality that is both baffling and utterly unrecognizable. She's told she was the driver, but her memories contradict this. Her lover is now her emotionally distant husband, whom she suspects of infidelity. Even more disorienting, her mother and friends are strangers to her. As reality ebbs and flows, Claire grapples with her fragmented memories and shifting sense of self. Is she truly suffering from amnesia, or has she crossed over to a parallel world-a conviction that grows stronger by the day-where everything she once knew has shifted What follows is a pair of intertwined stories that transcend time and space, weaving a luminous tale of hope, second chances, and the possibility of the impossible-the very fabric of our existence on earth.
Ho Lin Lee was born and raised in Singapore, where she still calls home. Her lifelong passion for writing has been a constant thread throughout a diverse career encompassing the civil service, publishing and education. She has written several educational books and won third prize for a short story in the 2009 Golden Point Award, Singapore's premier creative writing competition. With Claire, her debut novel, she embarks on a new chapter in her writing journey, crafting stories longing to be told.