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The Hungry Ghosts

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'A stunning debut' Woman & Home

Winner of Amazon's 'Rising Stars' competition

Shortlisted for The Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2010

Shortlisted for The Waterstones Book Circle Award

Shortlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize

Japanese occupied Hong Kong, 1942.

Raped then murdered, 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...