Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho

Paperback: Remember that your relatives are only human - that means they can be killed. - Ancient Chinese Proverb

Like all good Chinese children, Andrea Tang is doing her best to fulfil all her mother's plans for her life: she's on track to become partner at a top law firm in Singapore, she has a beautiful apartment in the right postcode and a perfect boyfriend who is practically made of husband material.

Except that those plans are unravelling fast: there's an unfairly attractive new lawyer out to steal her promotion, she has credit-card debt up to her eyeballs, her perfect boyfriend is now her perfect ex-boyfriend and the last single cousin in her family just got engaged, leaving her exposed to romantic meddling on all sides...

Last Tang Standing (2020) is a Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary debut novel by a debut author. A funny and irresistible novel, it is a story of love and friendship, the pursuit of happiness, surviving one’s thirties intact, opening oneself up to love and last but not least, it is a story of the most intrusive people in the world: family!

About the author: Lauren is a reformed legal counsel who writes funny stories. She has previously worked for Doctors Without Borders and UNHCR. Hailing from Malaysia, she lived in the United Kingdom, France and Luxembourg before moving with her family to Singapore, where she is ostensibly working on her next novel. Last Tang Standing is not based on her mother. At all. Seriously.

She can be found here @hellolaurenho on Twitter, IG, FB and hellolaurenho.com.

Rating: 5/5