How far would you go for a better life? Hot shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move with their young daughter Holly to the booming, gold rush city of Shanghai, China. It is a place of opportunity and temptation, where fortunes are made and foreign marriages come apart in spectacular fashion. Bill’s law firm houses the Holden family in Paradise Mansions – a luxury apartment block full of second wives, the mistresses of China’s new rich, beautiful young women like the enigmatic JinJin Li – ex-school teacher, crossword addict, dedicated roller skater and the Holdens’ neighbour. When tragedy forces Becca to temporarily return home with Holly, Bill and JinJin Li find their friendship developing into something more dangerous for both of them, something that threatens to destroy all of their lives. When Becca and Holly return to Shanghai it is time for all of them to learn something about the meaning of love and the bonds of family.
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About the Author:
Tony Parsons is an award winning journalist and bestselling novelist. He began his writing career on NME. He is the author of Man and Boy, winner of the Book of the Year prize. His subsequent novels - One For My Baby, Man and Wife, The Family Way, Stories We Could Tell, My Favourite Wife and Starting Over were all bestsellers. He lives in London.
Review:
Acclaim for for Tony Parsons:`Funny, serious, tender and honest...Tony Parsons is writing about the genuine dilemmas of modern life' Sunday Express`He takes as his specialist subject contemporary emotional issues which almost every other male writer has ignored' Guardian`Memorable and poignant - nobody squeezes more genuine emotion from a scene than Tony Parsons' Spectator
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- PublisherCB Creative Books
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1782920447
- ISBN 13 9781782920441
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages398
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