He seems to understand her better than anyone else, but he reveals little of his own past or emotions.
In Will’s company, she finally feels alive but she is infuriated by his aloofness. Will is handsome and darkly charismatic-everything Claire’s husband, the stolid and reliable Martin, is not.Īfter meeting Will at a cocktail party, Claire begins to see him everywhere. The British themselves are divided into recent arrivals, like Claire, and those who survived the war, like Will Truesdale, the Chens’ English chauffeur. Yet memories and reminders of those brutal times are everywhere.
The year is 1952 and, as the wife of an English engineer overseeing the construction of a new reservoir, Claire seems destined to lead an insulated life, socializing with the other expatriate wives.īut when she takes a position giving piano lessons to Locket Chen, the daughter of a wealthy and powerful local family, she enters a world of deceit, passion, and dark secrets that will deeply shock Hong Kong society and change Claire forever.Īt first glance, the British colony seems to have recovered from the ravages of the Japanese occupation a decade earlier. Demure and unsophisticated, Claire Pendleton is the quintessential English rose when she first arrives in Hong Kong.
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