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The Shanghai Wife written by Emma Harcourt performed by Eloise Oxer on MP3 CD (Unabridged)

The Shanghai Wife written by Emma Harcourt performed by Eloise Oxer on MP3 CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781460797471
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Historical
Duration:  542 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Emma Harcourt
Performer 1:  Eloise Oxer
Rarity:  Rare

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Forbidden friendship, political conspiracy and incendiary passion draw Australian woman Annie Brand deep into the glamour and turmoil of 1920s Shanghai. Leaving behind the loneliness and trauma of her past in country Australia, Annie Brand arrives to the political upheaval and glittering international society of Shanghai in the 1920s. Journeying up the Yangtze with her new husband, the ship's captain, Annie revels in...

the sense of adventure but when her husband sends her back to Shanghai, her freedom is quickly curtailed. Against her will, Annie finds herself living alone in the International Settlement, increasingly suffocated by the judgmental Club ladies and their exclusive social scene: one even more restrictive than that she came from.

Sick of salacious gossip and foreign condescension, and desperate to shake off the restrictions of her position in the world, Annie is slowly drawn into the bustling life and otherness of the real Shanghai, and begins to see the world from the perspective of the local people, including the servants who work at her husband's Club.

But this world is far more complex and dangerous than the curious Annie understands and, unknowingly, she becomes caught in a web of intrigue and conspiracy as well as a passionate forbidden love affair she could not have predicted: one with far–reaching consequences...

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