Books with title Midnight Rose

Midnight is the time when everyone should be fast asleep…but this is not the case for Ben Harding. It starts off with just a normal midnight stroll along the beach, after a fall out with his mum. When Ben finds a blue gem-like stone mixed in with the pebbles, he takes it home thinking it is just an ordinary stone that has fallen off of some jewelry. Little does he know that this stone holds a power that will cause him to relive a certain part of his life every night at a specific time – midnight – until he gets rid of it! His life isn't exactly easy either. An abusive mother, death and lack of sleep makes his situation worse...

On the cusp of independence, cultures collide in a bedroom in Singapore. As the Vietnam War rages on, the English-educated scholar Lee Hua Min—“the finest product of the University”—finds himself hopelessly disillusioned. Enter Wong Ching Mei, a Chinese-educated former nightclub singer seeking to enrol in Nanyang University. Mirroring the intense tussles between the English- and Chinese-speaking during Singapore’s formative years, Hua Min and Ching Mei trade ferocious barbs even as they are inexplicably drawn to each other. When Su-Ling, Hua Min’s ex-classmate, returns from London, Hua Min is torn between their advances and the extremely different worlds they inhabit. Humorous, witty and prescient, A White Rose At Midnight is a pithy portrait of a soul—and nation—divided.A White Rose At Midnight was first staged to critical acclaim by the Experimental Theatre Club in 1964. It was pioneer playwright Lim Chor Pee’s second and final play after the landmark Mimi Fan (1962). In 2014, Centre 42 mounted a partial dramatised reading of the play.“Full of wit and humour... Though the humour is unending this play has a serious theme — the search for identity by the present day generation.”—The Straits Times “[Lim Chor Pee has] a mind that has something original to say to an audience which is sympathetic to the growth of Malayan theatre.”—The Straits Times