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Title: |
Searching for Billie |
| Sub-title: |
A journalist’s quest to understand his mother’s past leads him to discover a vanished China |
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| By (author): |
Ian Gill |
| ISBN10-13: |
9887554669 : 9789887554660 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Blacksmith Books - June 2024 |
| List Price: |
14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
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| Ian Gill's first visit to Hong Kong in 1975 takes an unexpected turn when he meets his Chinese mother Billieâ s friends, colleagues and fellow ex-prisoners of war, lifting the veil on a tumultuous past in Hong Kong and Shanghai. He moves to Asia and unravels her intriguing journey: from controversial adoption by an English postmaster in Changsha to popular radio broadcaster in wartime Shanghai, from tragedy and a doomed romance in a Japanese internment camp to being decorated by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the United Nations. He discovers a great-grandmother in a determined English farm girl who ends up owning a well-known hotel on the China coast in the 1870s â and he finally meets his father for the first time on a Canadian island in 1985. The backdrop for this fascinating family story is China's turbulent century from the Anglo-Chinese wars of the 1840s to the advent of communism. |
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