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The Hong Kong Widow

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Hong Kong, 1953. Mei is a young refugee of the Chinese Communist Revolution scraping out a living as a traditional paper-cutting artist. But paper art is not her only gift; she also has the ability to speak to ghosts, an ability that she has striven to bury. When she receives an invitation – to take part in a competition pitting six spirit mediums against one another – she has every reason to refuse. Except that the hostess is none other than the wife of the man who once destroyed Mei’s entire life. The winner is promised a fortune, but there is only one prize Mei wants: Revenge. Decades later, that competition has become an infamous urban legend: the police were called to the scene of a brutal massacre but found no evidence, dismissing it as a collective hallucination. Mei, now elderly, knows what she saw, she just doesn’t quite know what she did.

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1953. Refugee Mei has tried to bury her ‘gift’ of speaking to ghosts, but then former silent film star Holly Zhang invites her to be one of six mediums competing over a series of s�ances at the infamous Maidenhair House. The startling summons revives Mei’s link to the man who destroyed her life. The staggering reward on offer might explain why Mei agrees to take part, but the only prize she wants is revenge.Years later, the events of those nights have faded into urban legend but if Mei wants to finally lay the ghosts she carries to rest, she must uncover what really happened at Maidenhair House.

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Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

352

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K