Fleche by Mary Jean Chan crossword 'a compelling masterpiece' (Sunday Telegraph)

'a compelling masterpiece' (Sunday Telegraph) about a housekeeper with a long-hidden secret from her past

the narrator embarks upon a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he and the Rat had enjoyed playing years earlier: the three-flipper Spaceship

He wrote both fiction and non-fiction - short stories

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Fleche by Mary Jean Chan crossword 'a compelling masterpiece' (Sunday Telegraph)WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARDPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Flche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when they competed locally and internationally for their home city, Hong Kong. This cross linguistic pun presents the queer, non white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('flche'), and evokes the difficulties of reconciling one's need for