Description
California, 1877
Frenchwoman Catherine Bourchier flees an abusive husband and risks everything on a vineyard in far-off America.
In the smouldering powder keg of San Francisco, Chi-en Shambles is exiled from his own Chinatown community. Can his extraordinary talents and natural decency win acceptance and love where a man is measured a by dollars, ignorance and prejudice?
An unlikely alliance offers each damaged outcast a final chance in the 'New Eden' of Napa Valley. But the past and its ghosts are never truly dead. And the dust of the earth never settles. Sometimes both come knocking at your door.
An epic rendering of China's Taiping Rebellion and the early years of Californian winemaking
About the Author
Tim Murgatroyd is an English teacher turned full-time novelist and playwright who lives with his family in York. His popular trilogy of epic novels set in medieval China, Taming Poison Dragons, Breaking Bamboo and The Mandate of Heaven was judged sufficiently authentic to be translated into Chinese and published in China. His other acclaimed novels include The Electric, The Nazi's Daughter and the Pilgrim trilogy.
Book Information
ISBN 9781910183359
Author Tim Murgatroyd
Format Hardback
Imprint Myrmidon Books Ltd
Publisher Myrmidon Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 650g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 162mm * 44mm
