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BOOK REVIEW: Searching for Billie (A Son Recounts Mother’s Extraordinary Wartime Odyssey)
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BOOK REVIEW: Searching for Billie (A Son Recounts Mother’s Extraordinary Wartime Odyssey)

By Ian Gill. Blacksmith Books, Hong Kong. Soft cover, 400 pages, with 50+ photographs. US$17.95, £14.99

Dec 09, 2023
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By: Mark O’Neill

This is a biography by Ian Gill of the extraordinary life of his mother Billie. The adopted daughter of a British postal commissioner of the Chinese Post Office and his Chinese wife, she lived in cities all over the world, had two sons with different fathers and worked for 30 years with the United Nations. In 1977, at Buckingham Palace, …

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