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The Harbour

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Audience: General/trade
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1/07/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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It is the summer of 1940, and for Stevie Steiber, a young American journalist in Hong Kong, the war raging in Europe seems a world away. Tasked with keeping her New York readers informed about society gossip from the Orient - although longing to be taken seriously as a writer - she sashays through cocktail parties and dinner dances, as days at the Happy Valley race-course slip into lost, opium-clouded nights. Major Harry Field has been charged by Her Majesty's Government with investigating suspicious activity inside the colony. But with the British focused on the war back home and the Chinese concerned only with the communist threat from within, Harry suspects it may be the approaching Japanese army who represent the real threat. He is intrigued by the recent arrival on the island of Jisheng, a Chinese socialite and owner of a controversial political magazine, but it is Stevie, Jisheng's outspoken, beautiful star reporter who really fascinates him.

A haunting tale of love's struggle to survive against all odds. A bold and beautifully written debut Mark Mills, author of The Savage Garden Gripping and moving ... Francesca Brill is a very good writer indeed and I was sucked into the story until I was no longer aware of things going on around me, only of what was going on to the characters I had grown to love, and an era I knew very little about but which was instantly fascinating. High quality story-telling Simon Sebag Montefiore A fiercely imagined and deeply felt story of complicated wartime love. I could see every scene Rosie Alison, author of The Very Thought of You

Title: The Harbour
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Contributors: By (author) Francesca Brill

ISBN 13: 9781408814826
ISBN 10: 140881482X

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1/07/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Dewey Classification: 823.92 (DC23)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction

Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm