| Description |
328 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Claire Pendleton, newly married and arrived in Hong Kong in 1952, finds work giving piano lessons to the daughter of Melody and Victor Chen, a wealthy Chinese couple. While the girl is less than interested in music, the Chens' flinty British expat driver, Will Truesdale, is certainly interested in Claire, and vice versa. Their fast-blossoming affair is juxtaposed against a plot line beginning in 1941 when Will gets swept up by the beautiful and tempestuous Trudy Liang, and then follows through his life during the Japanese occupation... The rippling of past actions through to the present lends the narrative layers of intrigue and more than a few unexpected twists. |
| Subject |
Piano teachers -- Fiction.
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Married women -- Fiction.
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English -- China -- Hong Kong -- Fiction.
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Hong Kong (China) -- Fiction.
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Nineteen fifties -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780670020485 |
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0670020486 |
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