Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels The Binding Chair, Exposure, A Thousand Orange Trees and Envy, as well as two volumes of memoirs, The Kiss and Seeking Rapture, all available from Fourth Estate. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children.
'This is a tale as absorbing and exciting as Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha.' Sunday Express The magical tale of a young orphan's adventures after she flees rural China for turn-of-the-century Shanghai. From Kathryn Harrison, author of the bestselling memoir THE KISS.
Publication date: UK 22nd Aug 2009