Huong Keenleyside

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Huong Keenleyside (born Nguyen Thi Huong) is a Vietnamese author who has had considerable success in her own country. Born in 1971 in Hanoi, she lived initially in her father's native village in Tan Yen District in Bac Giang Province. Her father died in 1981 leaving a family of nine, five of them younger than Huong. . She escaped and went to work in Hanoi where she married and had a son followed a year later by a girl. Shortly after the birth of her girl her husband died. Shortly after completing a course for authors and poetry she met a British man who she married six months later and the moved to England in 1998, living mainly in York.

She has published a number of books, including best seller: "Rainbow in Iraq" The last, Agent 022, was about her uncle who worked as a spy in the South Vietnamese Police Office for monitoring suspected North Vietnamese agents. There he was able to protect many Vietcong and other agents working for the North. The book is also a romantic novel as Agent Ngoc Lan was ordered to marry a young French girl. The book publishing in the UK this Christmas under the new title:" For the love of Vietnam" by Janus Publishing Ltd .Her new book " Living the the United Kingdom" will be out next year.

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Huong Keenleyside in Vietnam

Huong Keenleyside started rwiting sine ealy age. Her first  bestselling book  " The screct of soul" . The second bestselling " For the love of Vietnam" when it was frist published in Hanoi, the  Vietnamese police tried to stop many newspaper to review it. Howevr the book still selling and won many readers heart.