No Room in Neverland

How far would you go to visit that place in your head? All Gemma Young remembers of her childhood are her regular visits to the idyllic, imaginary Neverland before her mother fell sick. When Gemma meets Cole, a disenchanted boy who stirs up more than just memories of her adventures in Neverland, she begins to piece together her half forgotten childhood: her mother sick with longing for Neverland, the accident that ripped her family apart, and her father who abandoned her when she was a child. But now, Gemma’ s near-obsessive quest to find her father sends her spiralling deeper into Neverland just like her mother had. As the boundaries blur between the real world and Neverland, Gemma must sift through fact and fiction, discern between truth and make-believe, to find out what happened to her mother and rebuild a new life with her father.

Joyce Chua is the author of Lambs for Dinner (Straits Times Press, 2013), Land of Sand and Song, Kingdom of Blood and Gold, and Until Morning (Penguin Random House SEA). She graduated from the National University of Singapore with a degree in English, and is now a personal finance editor by day and author by night. When not writing, she can be found on Instagram and TikTok at joycechuawrites sharing her random poetry or fangirling over Asian dramas.