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The song of the jade lily: a Novel

✍ Scribed by Kirsty Manning

Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Weight: 247 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Kirsty Manning makes her US debut with this gripping historical novel that tells the little-known story of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.

**"Compelling, passionate, and admirable." -- Australian Women's Weekly
**

1939 : Two young girls meet in Shanghai, also known as the "Paris of the East". Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy form a fierce friendship, but the deepening shadows of World War II fall over the women as they slip between the city's glamorous French Concession district and the teeming streets of the Shanghai Ghetto. Yet soon the realities of war prove to be too much for these close friends as they are torn apart.

2016: Fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm. Her grandfather is dying, and over the coming weeks Romy and Wilhelm begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more...

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