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.
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Mr Thompson has the verbal photography of Ernest Hemingway. --The Cornish Guardian
With settings that stretch from China to Cornwall, these sagas delight. --Independent
With settings that stretch from China to Cornwall, these sagas delight. --Independent
About the Author
E.V. Thompson was born in London, After spending nine years in the Royal Navy, he served as a Vice Squad policeman in Bristol, became an investigator for British Overseas Airways (during which time he was seconded to the Hong Kong Police Narcotics Bureau), then headed Rhodesia's Department of Civil Aviation Security Section. While in Rhodesia, he published over two hundred short stories before moving back to England to become a full-time award-winning writer. His first novel, Chase the Wind, the opening book in the Retallick saga, won the Best Historical Novel Award, and since then more than thirty novels have won him thousands of admirers around the world. In 2011 E.V. Thompson was awarded an MBE for services to literature and to the Cornish community.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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this book was very readable it was very interesting and historically quite accurate I its description of events that took place.
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This book gives you a wonderful insight into the lifestyle in China during the war between Britain and China, and the struggle facing missionaries in a communist country. Intertwined through all this is a lovely story of forbidden love, and the struggle to find a compromise in an uncompromising situation. One of the best novels I have read from E.V.Thompson.
Mr Thompson, if you read this, please e.mail me with a list of all your books, especially the eighth book in the Retallick series. I am struggling to find more of your books to read.
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A gripping tale of how a woman's life was out of her hands and directed by the men in her life. She was a sympathetic and likeable heroine
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up to scratch, nice to know Mr Thompson has not lost his touch , Thank you very much , look forward to the next one.
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I really enjoyed this book. It was a great read and with a backdrop of history so also a learning experience.
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I enjoyed this book and found it an absorbing read. Plenty of attention to detail and good historical background well researched.
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enjoyed this book but unfortunately it lost me towards the end and I didnt finish it all, didnt realise it was so historical.
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I found this book a little heavy on historical detail than on plot and depth. I found the overall storyline to be weak but it is packed with detail on 19th century British and Chinese battles and missionary work.
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enjoyable read
I really enjoyed this story. It was an unusual subject for me and I found it taught me a lot as well as entertaiuned
Published 2 months ago by penny
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Life's Too Short
Bought this because I was between novels and it was cheap. I don't as a rule read much historical fiction. Read more
Published 2 months ago by culturevulture59
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The Blue Dress Girl Didn't Impress me Much
I chose this book because I love books which are set in China & Japan. This didn't have a bad plot, but the writing was a bit pedantic & the book tended to chunter along, rather... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. Lee Thomas
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The Blllue Dress Girl
Well, it'sOK, why does one have to say more. Rather silly, interesting if it is historically correct but haven't looked up that era so far, didn't quite have enough interst. Read more
Published 3 months ago by mrs m e a schrader
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Unputdownable
A great read giving a wonderful insight into Chinese society in tne last century. As good as all E V Thompson books.
Published 3 months ago by Ms S. D. Kelly
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Blue Dress Girl
I received this item as promised on time. It was very well packed. This item completed the series I was reading.
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