I found it second-hand at a library's used book sale, then it sat in my room collecting dust for a year or more. After her marriage, she finds her husband is indifferent to her and her needs and she falls in love with a married Japanese nobleman.

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although the list has diversified into biography and fiction, it is united by a quest to define the spirit of a place. It isn't that it was boring before, in China, but you primarily got the European life style in Peking.The newly arrived Mary notices the smell of Peking: ‘not one of the spicy smells that are supposed to be a feature of the Orient, but more like rancid butter that has been slightly heated in a pan’. Instead, this provides such a sense of immediacy and intimacy that I often felt like I was sitting next to Mary as she wrote.

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. In 1903, a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed, a military attachÉ in Peking. Hampton became involved in the theatre while studying German and French at Oxford University where OUDS performed his play When Did You Last See My Mother? Theirs is a cold marriage and he seems little interested in her, save that she should bear him a child.During a frustrating bout of reader's block I picked it up and I immediately entered Mary Mackenzie's reality. I wonder where the people in the boats went to during the Boxer figthing, perhaps they just stayed where they were, hoping for no stray bullets. You can unsubscribe from our list at any point by changing your preferences, or contacting us directly.