The Secret Goldfish and Other Follies

It is not easy being a foreign student in Britain. The weather is bad and the food is even worse. If you have a Chinese name, it will almost certainly be mangled. These are the things that Tong Jin Wei has to put up with. It is the start of his second year at Oxford and Jin Wei has fallen hopelessly in love with the mysterious Claire, who hails from Trinidad. Through his busy and chaotic schedule of student parties, visits to the college pub and singing in a rock band, Jin searches for the perfect plan that will win Claire’s heart. His task is made perilously more difficult by his own ineptitude towards women, distractions like essays, tutorials and lectures, and the cleft-chinned Scott, who is half a foot taller and competing with him for Claire’s affections. The Secret Goldfish and Other Follies is Jin Wei’s story.