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By Jamie Ford

ISBN-10: 0749022418

ISBN-13: 9780749022419

1909, Seattle. For twelve-year-old Ernest younger, a charity pupil at a boarding tuition, the opportunity to visit the World’s reasonable appears like a present. but if he’s there amid the unique shows, the half-Chinese orphan discovers that he'll really be a prize, raffled off to ‘a sturdy home’. he's claimed as a servant through the fancy madam of a high-class brothel. There he forges new friendships and discovers a feeling of kin for the 1st time. maybe this can be the house he’s continually wanted?

On the eve of the hot World’s reasonable fifty years later, Ernest is juggling stories and the calls for of his ill spouse in addition to long-held relations secrets and techniques which threaten to leak out.

A strong new novel, encouraged by way of a real story,from the bestselling writer of Hotel at the nook of sour and Sweet.

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