"Adibah Amin is best known for her ‘As I Was Passing By' column which was a regular feature of the New Straits Times in the 1970s and early ‘80s. Writing under the pen name of Sri Delima, she attracted a huge following with her inimitable style of writing—a combination of honesty, sensitivity and check. Perhaps less known are her talents as a teacher, journalist and creative writer.
This End of the Rainbow is her first novel in English. Set in the 1950s, it captures the innocence and spiritedness of young university students during their carefree days on campus, but they are soon torn between their own sheltered upbringing and the harsh realities of colonialism, social injustices and racial prejudices. It touches on the challenges of ethnic diversity which are best treated in the hands of a writer of Adibah Amin's wisdom and maturity."

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