342 pages
English language
Published March 9, 2013 by Bloomsbury.
342 pages
English language
Published March 9, 2013 by Bloomsbury.
It is the summer of 1940, and for Stevie Steiber, a young American journalist in Hong Kong, the war raging in Europe is a world away. While longing to be taken seriously as a writer, she keeps her readers informed about society gossip from the Orient, her days at the Happy Valley race-course slipping into dangerous, hedonistic nights.