A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
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- Titel: A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar / Suzanne Joinson
- Person(en): Joinson, Suzanne
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource
- Erschienen: 2012
- ISBN/Preis: 9781408830260 (electronic bk)
- Schlagwörter: Fiction ; Historical Fiction ; Electronic books
- Link(s): http://elibraryhh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=70151D84-6CED-4D20-9D52-EA576383121A Excerpt
Inhalt: It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent, but Eva's motivations for leaving her bourgeois life back at home are less clear-cut. As they attempt to navigate their new home and are met with resistance and calamity, Eva commences work on her book, A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar... In present-day London another story is beginning. Frieda, a young woman adrift in her own life, opens her front door one night to find a man sleeping on the landing. In the morning he is gone, leaving on the wall an exquisite drawing of a long-tailed bird and a line of Arabic script. Tayeb, who has fled to England from Yemen, has arrived on Frieda's doorstep just as she learns that she is the next-of-kin to a dead woman she has never heard of: a woman whose abandoned flat contains many surprises -...
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