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Mrs MisMarriageby Noelle ChuaISBN: 978 981 261 610 4 Paperpack 240pp November 2008 Price: S$16.50
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Harvard literature PhD candidate Audrey Lee’s perfect life loses the plot when her brand new boyfriend, the dapper MBA Paul Chang, gets down on one knee, and of all the silly and ridiculous things, proposes marriage!
Suddenly Audrey is fairy-tale trapped and wed-locked into a life she never wanted, that of expat wife and homemaker in her hometown Singapore. And wouldn’t you know it! That’s when a number of attractive men pop up all interested in her, enough to make Audrey feel she may indeed be the Singaporean Madame Bovary or Lady Chatterley.
With Paul too absorbed in his career to care plus a few mishaps making marital mayhem, Mrs MisMarriage is starting to feel that perhaps she is destined to live …unhappily ever after…
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Noelle Chua, 41, is currently a wife, and mother of a daughter and son, both under the age of 10; a freelance editor and writer, writing fiction on the side and intends to do that fulltime, circumstances permitting. She moved with her family to Singapore in 2000, and considers the city her home.
Noelle started out as a copywriter for McCann-Erickson Philippines. She conceptualised and edited an anthology of short stories called Fast Food Fiction that was published by Anvil Publishing. She is a Palanca Award winner (Philippine Literary Award) and has had numerous short stories published in literary journals in the US, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. She was the deputy editor for Female and Elle magazines and also helped to launch Cosmopolitan Philippines.
Mrs MisMarriage is not based on anyone Noelle knows, rather the character, Audrey, is an amalgamation of the many women she has met in Singapore over the past eight years. As such, Audrey was very easy to bring to life. Noelle was also interested in the idea of; quitters and stayers’ — a concept she had learned only when she came to Singapore. While Audrey believes herself to be a quitter — both as a Singaporean and as a wife — she ultimately surprises herself.
