PAKISTAN-born author’s heart-warming story about love and relationships.

One day, Aruna, still wearing flimsy sleep clothes and flip-flops and carrying nothing but a handbag, decides to up sticks and leave her London home, booking a flight to her home country of Singapore.

The book is split into three points of view – Arupa, childhood friend and ex-love Jazz and Jazz’s estranged and dying father Hassan.

With each chapter, we learn more about each character, such as how Arupa met her husband and how Jazz has moved on with life since his heart was broken.

Half Life may be a slow-burner of a book but you won’t be disappointed.