Born in Hong Kong in 1932 then raised in Singapore, Datin Patricia was working as a librarian at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) when she wrote her first book. Before this, she studied arts at the University of Malaya, where she met her husband, a medical specialist. Through observing and sharing knowledge with the researchers and becoming interested in what they sought out, she learned how to write her own historical book. Datin … Continue reading A woman of strength