Poon, Alice

Alice Poon was born, grew up and spent a portion of her adult years in Hong Kong. She is now a semi-retiree living in British Columbia, Canada, trying at long last to fulfill a dream of her high school days - to be a writer. Shifts of fortune in many Hong Kong people's lives in the four decades leading up to the change of sovereignty fascinate her and have inspired her to write her debut novel, "Fated and Fateless." The story is told through two female characters' contrasting life journeys in Hong Kong's colonial days. Extensive work experiences in Hong Kong's property development industry plu...