But behind her story, and those of the city’s other female murderers, lie complex webs of relationships and jealousies, poverty and despair. Kwan was found guilty and became the second and last woman in Hong Kong to suffer the death penalty. Within minutes, three people were dead: the concubine with over 70 gashes, many of them to the bone. Late one sticky, humid night, something snapped in her – and she grabbed the meat chopper. Kwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her husband’s concubine sick of her mother-in-law’s endless carping about the money she spent sick of the whole family.
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"This may be the most moving story you will ever read," said Britain's Sunday Telegraph.Ĭlick on the following link to view sample pages from Wordjazz for Stevie. This is a short book but intense and deeply moving. In the end Jonathan is left to bring up his son Patrick as a single father. The story that Jonathan tells is made even more poignant by the fact that it deals also with his wife's unsuccessful battle with cancer. It is also the story of how this almost overwhelming surge of loving energy led Jonathan to found first the Hong Kong Down Syndrome Association, and then later another charity to take into China the same idea that the key to supporting children like Stevie is to support their parents - and to see the problem as one involving the whole family. Wordjazz for Stevie is the story of Jonathan's life with Stevie and the deeply beneficial impact she had on his life.
For the remaining seven and a half years of her life she was blind, epileptic and unable to sit, let alone walk. Something went wrong during the operation and Stevie suffered a momentary lack of oxygen that left her severely brain-damaged. A few months later it became clear that she had a serious heart defect that required a `hole in the heart' operation. Stevie was immediately diagnosed with Down's syndrome. In 1986, Jonathan Chamberlain and his wife Bernadette had their first child, Stevie, a daughter.
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