A fairly typical Dinah Jefferies book, her writing will never set the world alight but her books are readable and enjoyable enough, don't make you think too much - and sometimes that's just what we need.

Belle travels to Rangoon to work as a singer, but also on the hunt for information about a dead sister she never knew she had.  She makes friends in high places amongst the British ex-pats, who warn her off an attractive American journalist who she's drawn to.  As the political situation in Burma reaches a turning point, Belle finds herself in danger as she seeks answers to what happened to her sister, and the impact it had on her mother.

There are absolutely no surprises in this book, but it was somewhat interesting to read a novel set in Burma, a place I've never read about before