A Grazia book club pick, set between the last years of the “Chinese Windrush” in 1966 and Hong Kong’s Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother’s homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity, and the price of belonging.

"Brimming with cinematic tension" - Kirkus Starred Review

"[This] ambitious first novel extends beyond a complex family saga" - The Guardian

"A clever, inspiring book...honest, and true to how things are" - Washington Independent Review of Books

"A real nail-biter... so winningly chronicled by Wharton" - New York Times