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Jade and Emerald

Winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize

by Michelle See-Tho

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Narrator Veronica Chan

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Length 8 hours 49 minutes

Language English

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Summary
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Lei Ling Wen is lonely. Bored of her demanding after-school schedule of tuition, study and violin lessons, she struggles to see eye to eye with her strict Chinese-Malaysian mother.

When Lei Ling is befriended by elegant, worldly socialite Gigi Nu, she is enchanted by the realm of luxury and freedom that suddenly opens up to her. Gigi encourages Lei Ling to flout her routines and treats her to designer products and expensive meals, and soon Lei Ling finds herself caught between two lives, and increasingly at odds with her exasperated mother.

Then tragedy strikes, and Lei Ling discovers long-held secrets that lead her to question everything she thought she knew about the two central women in her life, and the friendship she'd held at the heart of it.

Jade and Emerald is a fierce and deeply felt novel about the joys and pains of growing up, of accepting who you are and where you come from.

Fiction LGBTQIA+ Fiction

Michelle See-Tho (Author)
Michelle See-Tho is a freelance writer and copywriter. She has had articles and stories published in Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, Overland and The Big Issue Fiction Edition. Jade and Emerald, her first novel, won the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize.

Veronica Chan (Reader)
Veronica played the role of Mama in the short film "Like How I Remembered", written and directed by AFTRS graduate Brittany Xu in 2019. The short film was later selected to be shown in several film
festivals around the world, including Gold Coast Film Festival, Chicago International Children's Festival, and LA Asian Film Festival.

Veronica is a 2021 graduate of the Advanced Diploma of Screen Acting at Screenwise Film and Television School.