Advantages: A riveting page turner of a read Disadvantages: Not a single one
...Kristin Burns has hoped of becoming a professional photographer, but for the moment works as a nanny for two children whom she cares about very much. The same can not be said for their mother…
As the book begins we meet Kristin as she wakes from a nightmare. In her dream she is outside a hotel taking pictures when she sees four body bags. Something very bad has happened here. As she continues to take photographs (her constant thought is "Don't think, just shoot") she glimpses movement from the corner of her eye.. One of the body bags just moved… She screams for help... and wakes up.
Kristin wakes to a very annoyed knocking at her door. Her visitor is a neighbour who tells he she is sick of being woken every morning by screaming. Kristin is bemused, she is sure she didn't scream, and presumes her neighbour is mistaken.
Once she starts...
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...yes a good read. Very well written and you felt part of the story. Descriptions were fantastic. Yes it took sometime to get into the book to start with but once you read the first ffew pages then you were hooked.It is very inventive and entertaining historical novel and it tells of the tragic fulfillment of a person's desires.the author Kathryn Harrison sets the book in China in the city of SHanghai. She explores the terrible things which the chinese did like binding women's feet which was a terrible ritual and the suffering of women who had a disfigurement either mental or physical. What these chinese women went through must have been very terrible.With various issues that came up concerning the Chinese cultture of that peroid of time the author produces I well written novel with characters in the book experiencing some of the issues....
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somewhat helpful 31.08.2007
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