Maureen Lindley

The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel

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Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father, Prince Su makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth sister, Eastern Jewel's sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with distant relatives in Tokyo, then forced into a passionless marriage in freezing Mongolia. Increasingly isolated, at night she is plagued by disturbing fantasies and unsettling dreams. But she refuses to be pinned down by anyone - least of all a man - and in the dazzling city of Shanghai she puts her thrill-seeking nature to work spying for the Japanese, spurning everything she once held dear…Based on the real-life sto… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4088-0677-7
EAN: 9781408806777
Produktnummer: 13923912
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 452 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Maureen Lindley was born in Berkshire and grew up in Scotland. She was trained as a psychotherapist and also worked as a photographer, antique dealer and a dress designer before writing her first book, The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel. Maureen lives in the Wye valley on the Welsh borders with her husband.