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Self-help author Marilyn Choong believes communicating with the dead can help with grief

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Best-selling author Marilyn Choong's The Thin Veil Between Us reached No. 1 on The Straits Times' bestsellers list in the non-fiction category.

Best-selling author Marilyn Choong's The Thin Veil Between Us reached No. 1 on The Straits Times' bestsellers list in the non-fiction category.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF MARILYN CHOONG, PARTRIDGE

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SINGAPORE – While grieving the death of her mother from cancer in June 2022, Singaporean author Marilyn Choong started receiving what she believed were signs from the afterlife – multi-coloured feathers began to appear in her home.

The 43-year-old author of The Thin Veil Between Us, a book that is at once a memoir and self-help book for the grieving, brings out a ceramic cup stuffed with such feathers midway through the interview.

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