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Title: BLUE DRESS GIRL
By: E. V. Thompson
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0709098464
ISBN 13: 9780709098461
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Publisher: THE CROWOOD PRESS LTD
Pub. date: 1 August, 2012
Pages: 224
Description: When a Chinese peasant girl is chosen as a concubine to Li Hung, Chief Customs Officer for the bustling port of Canton, her parents tell her it is a great honour - but the seedy reality is far from honourable. This beautifully told saga is majestically woven around the lives of two people, discovering unexpected feelings in unfamiliar territory.
Synopsis: When a Chinese peasant girl is chosen as a concubine to Li Hung, Chief Customs Officer for the bustling port of Canton, her parents tell her it is a great honour - but the seedy reality is far from honourable. After an incident with a lecherous British trader she is sent away and is injured during the voyage when a British man-o'-war fires at the junk in which she is travelling. Second Lieutenant Kernow Keats, a Royal Marine from the man-o'-war, boards the junk and, moved by the plight of the fragile young girl, makes arrangements to take her to a mission hospital in Hong Kong where their romance blossoms. However, a love affair between a British officer and a Chinese peasant girl is unthinkable in 1857, and when Kernow becomes inextricably involved in the vicious war being waged by the Chinese Taiping rebels it seems their love is doomed. From the author of Chase the Wind and Though the Heavens May Fall this beautifully told saga is majestically woven around the lives of two people, discovering unexpected feelings in unfamiliar territory.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Robert Hale Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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SEEK A NEW DAWN
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SINGING SPEARS
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SOME WHERE A BIRD IS SINGING (AUD)
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THE BONDS OF EARTH
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THE DREAM TRADERS
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THE RESTLESS SEA
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THE STRICKEN LAND
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THE TOLPUDDLE WOMAN (AUD)
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THE VAGRANT KING
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