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'The Secrets of Jin-Shei is a completely original - and a completely magical piece of literature' Joanne Harris
Woven into the fabric of a medieval-like China, this is the story of ten girls, each destined to give up everything for Jin-Shei, the sisterhood. Set against a backdrop of the Imperial Court the girls are brought together by the hand of fate. The secret language of the Jin-Shei is passed on from mother to daughter, a tie more binding than death itself! Born out of necessity and transcending all social barriers this saga of a novel takes us on a journey from the cloistered women of the court, stifled by protocol, to the court of The Beggar King. An exciting journey of honour, betrayal, intrigue, love, alchemy, evil, corruption, sacrifice and the quest for immortality, this is a tapestry of human frailty and the gift of life. The journey is a long one but well worth the telling. Enjoyable and sad. (Kirkus UK)
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A sweeping epic set in medieval China; it is the story of a group of women, the Jin-Shei sisterhood, who form a uniquely powerful circle that transcends class and social custom. They are bound together by a declaration of loyalty that transcends all other vows, even those with the gods, by their own secret language, passed from mother to daughter, by the knowledge that some of them will have to pay the ultimate sacrifice to enable others to fulfil their destiny. The sisterhood we meet run from the Emperor's sister to the street-beggar, from the trainee warrior in the Emperor's Guard to the apprentice healer, from the artist to the traveller-girl, herself an illegitimate daughter of an emperor and seen as a threat to the throne. And as one of them becomes Dragon Empress, her determination to hold power against the sages of the temple, against the marauding forces from other kingdoms, drags the sisterhood into a dangerous world of court intrigue, plot and counterplot, and brings them into conflict with each other from which only the one who remains true to all the vows she made at the very beginning to the dying Princess Empress can rescue them.
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'The Secrets of Jin-Shei is a completely original - and a completely magical piece of literature' Joanne Harris
Woven into the fabric of a medieval-like China, this is the story of ten girls, each destined to give up everything for Jin-Shei, the sisterhood. Set against a backdrop of the Imperial Court the girls are brought together by the hand of fate. The secret language of the Jin-Shei is passed on from mother to daughter, a tie more binding than death itself! Born out of necessity and transcending all social barriers this saga of a novel takes us on a journey from the cloistered women of the court, stifled by protocol, to the court of The Beggar King. An exciting journey of honour, betrayal, intrigue, love, alchemy, evil, corruption, sacrifice and the quest for immortality, this is a tapestry of human frailty and the gift of life. The journey is a long one but well worth the telling. Enjoyable and sad. (Kirkus UK)
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A sweeping epic set in medieval China; it is the story of a group of women, the Jin-Shei sisterhood, who form a uniquely powerful circle that transcends class and social custom. They are bound together by a declaration of loyalty that transcends all other vows, even those with the gods, by their own secret language, passed from mother to daughter, by the knowledge that some of them will have to pay the ultimate sacrifice to enable others to fulfil their destiny. The sisterhood we meet run from the Emperor's sister to the street-beggar, from the trainee warrior in the Emperor's Guard to the apprentice healer, from the artist to the traveller-girl, herself an illegitimate daughter of an emperor and seen as a threat to the throne. And as one of them becomes Dragon Empress, her determination to hold power against the sages of the temple, against the marauding forces from other kingdoms, drags the sisterhood into a dangerous world of court intrigue, plot and counterplot, and brings them into conflict with each other from which only the one who remains true to all the vows she made at the very beginning to the dying Princess Empress can rescue them.
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