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Bestselling author Isabel Allende's first adult novel since 'Portrait in Sepia' -- beautiful

and buy on their own sales cycles

” (The Associated Press)

New Beginnings Wendy Stephen and sewingIn the southern Province of Guangxi amidst the turmoil of the Taiping Rebellion and the Opium War, a woman is kidnapped and her husband shipped out as a coolie to Singapore. Yet from despair came good fortune. Seen through the eyes of one family, this is a moving story of the scourge of opium and one man's plight and rise in fortune in British Malaya. Chan Ling Yap's third novel has all the assurance of her first two successes and more. A strong story