The River Never Left Her

In present-day Z?rich, an American expat, Emily Benz, buys a set of personal archives at an online auction, setting off an investigation into the life of a British woman raised in the early part of the twentieth century in China. What seemed like an innocuous tin of bonbons sold by a grandson soon turns into a can of worms that can't be closed again, revealing family dysfunction that stretches back generations, a fairy-tale childhood, four marriages and a liaison. Emily must reconcile the woman's adult biography with the vivid memoir of China seen through the eyes of a child. This most unexpected memoir moves between China at the turn of the last century, scandal in the high society of 1920s England, and a tenacious widow living in the Switzerland of today.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Austin Macauley
Published: 07/22/2024
ISBN: 9781398430495
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d