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A Winter in China (Isis General Fiction) (edition 2006)

by Douglas Galbraith

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Able, bored and just down from Cambridge in the summer of 1937, Sally Marsden contemplates her future without enthusiasm. So many have assumed she will marry Hugh Jerrold, it is, practically, an engagement. On a trip to China to see Hugh, Sally is soon caught up in the Sino-Japanese War.

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Title:	A Winter in China (Isis General Fiction)
Authors:	Douglas Galbraith
Info:	Isis Large Print Books (2006), Edition: large type edition, Paperback, 352 pages
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Beautiful prose but obscure in some places I felt. Nevertheless a chilling and evocative picture of the dark days of 1937/8 when the Japanese army occupied Nanking. Equally a heartfelt sketch of a woman reaching personal crossroads in a foreign country during a time of crisis (

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Able, bored and just down from Cambridge in the summer of 1937, Sally Marsden contemplates her future without enthusiasm. So many have assumed she will marry Hugh Jerrold, it is, practically, an engagement. On a trip to China to see Hugh, Sally is soon caught up in the Sino-Japanese War.

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