THE HUNGRY GHOSTS

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A novel for those who loved Behind the Scenes at the Museum, The
Poisonwood Bible and The Lovely Bones.
Raped then murdered in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in 1942, Lin
Shui’s ‘Hungry Ghost’ clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital
morgue, which is destined to become a school, just in time she finds a host
off whom to feed. It is twelve-year-old Alice Safford, the deeply-troubled
daughter of a leading figure in government. The parasitic ghost follows her
to her home on the Peak. There, the lethal mix of the two, embroiled in the
family’s web of dark secrets and desperate lies, unleashes chaos. All this
unfolds against a background of colonial unrest, riots, extremes of weather
and the countdown to the return of the colony to China. As successive
tragedies engulf Alice, her ghostly entourage swells alarmingly. She flees
to England, then France, in a bid to escape the past, only to find her
portable ‘Hungry Ghosts’ have accompanied her. It seems the peace she
longs for is to prove far more elusive that she could ever have imagined.
‘The Hungry Ghosts’ is a remarkable tour de force of the imagination, full of
instantly memorable characters whose lives intermesh and boil over in a cauldron of domestic
mayhem, unleashing unworldly spirits into the troubled air.

Author Name:	ANNE BERRY
Publisher Name:	HARPER COLLINS
ISBN:	9780007351435
Edition:	PAPERBACK
Language:	ENGLISH
Pages:	416
Publication Date:	SEPTEMBER 2010
Price:	299.00
List Price:	239.00
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