This book is set in 19th century China, where wives and daughters were foot bound and live in seclusion. In a remote Hunan area the women have developed their own secret language. This book follows the friendship of 2 girls through to adulthood and the challenges and hardship they experience along the way.
Book #26 about Kay Scarpetta chief examiner. I always find Patricia Cornwell books a good page turner. This one didn't disappoint, Kay is a star witness in a murder trial where people involved in the trial start getting murdered.
A summer beach read. No much depth to it. An easy read with a touch of romance set in the english countryside. I didn't warm particularly to the characters or plot.
Set in Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. They are have very different personalities but they are inseparable best friends. Both are beautiful, modern and living a carefree life ... until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away the family's wealth, and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to Americans.
This book follows the lives of 3 girls who all work for an exclusive San Francisco's Forbidden City night club. All the girls have secrets and are from different back grounds. Everything in their lives changes with the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
The 4th book of the Thursday Murder Club books. Set in a retirement village where a group of friends meet with forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers to solve the murder of one of their friends. A light hearted humorous read.
A fascinating book set in the remote Yunnan village in the tea producing province of China. It follows the lives of a mother and daughter who were separated through forced adoption.
An unusual book written from the point of view of a magpie. He is a special bird who becomes viral for being able to talk.