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The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry

ISBN: 9780007303403
Release Date: 28 May 2009
Average rating: (read by 27 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

A novel for those who loved Behind the Scenes at the Museum, The Poisonwood Bible and The Lovely Bones. Raped then murdered in Japanese occupied Hong Kong, 1942, Lin Shui's 'Hungry Ghost' clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, destined to become a school, just in time she finds a host off whom to feed. It is 12-year-old Alice Safford, the deeply-troubled daughter of a leading figure in government. The parasitic ghost follows her to her home on the Peak. There, the lethal mix of the two, embroiled in the family's web of dark secrets and desperate lies, unleashes chaos. All this unfolds against a background of colonial unrest, riots, extremes of weather and the countdown to the return of the colony to China. As successive tragedies engulf Alice, her ghostly entourage swells alarmingly. She flees to England, then France, in a bid to escape the past, only to find her portable 'Hungry Ghosts' have accompanied her. It seems the peace she longs for is to prove far more elusive that she could ever have imagined.
The Hungy Ghosts is a remarkable tour-de-force of the imagination, full of instantly memorable characters whose lives intermesh and boil over in a cauldron of domestic mayhem, unleashing unworldly spirits into the troubled air.

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	Peony Full Review
	Rated it 1 months ago

I'm so sorry, I know I won this but I didn't like it! Give credit where it's due, it was written brilliantly, even though I didn't finish it I still have memories of the book because of the way some of the scenes were written. It seemed to take me ages...

	peterolsen Full Review
	Rated it 3 months ago

I really enjoyed this book. I've lived in Hong Kong since 1972. My children attended the Island School and also for a short time the Peak School. I could fully identify the Colonial Ex Pat family that features in the book. Living on The Peak -...

	teller_girl5 Full Review
	Rated it 4 months ago

I absolutely loved this book. It was a book that was definitely hard to put down. This is not only the story of the ghost of the young Japanese girl, but of her host and what her family put her thru. Her story is told from the points of view of not...

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