by Alice Greenway (Author)
Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
'Beautifully imagined... An extremely elegant, as well as visually arresting, first novel.' -- Daily Mail
Two sisters grow together and apart into their emerging selves. Frankie pulses with curiosity and risk; Kate is watchful, all eyes and ears. Immersed in the heat and colours of Hong Kong in the 1960s, theirs is a world of fishermen and insurgents, temple gods and ghosts, of blinding light and dark, dark waters.
As Frankie's behaviour becomes more and more outrageous in her defiant attempt to win her parents' attention, Kate retreats into a quiet desperation, unable to act to save the soul for whom she would sacrifice everything - Frankie.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Edition: Main
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 13 Jul 2006
ISBN 10: 1843544407
ISBN 13: 9781843544401
Book Overview: Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction