Caroline Petit...

... is an Australian writer of the highest calibre. Her debut novel, The Fatman's Daughter, views the Japanese invasion of China through a Westerner's eyes, and gets its vivid details right.

Critics have raved about her ability to capture the time, place and feel of pre-war hong Kong as she details the shady existence of Leah - adrift in the city after the death of her father, Theo, a shady antiquities dealer.

Does Leah belong in 'polite Colonial society' or among the Chinese whose languages she speaks? Should she pursue a relationship with the sweet Jonathan Hawatyne, who has been keeping her father's empty accounts, or with the mysterious Cezar da Silva?

Caroline gives readers the journey into womanhood as exotic action-adventure, as a woman travels to Japanese-held Manchuko in1937, intent on stealing the Chinese imperial treasure, in the shadow of hundreds of thousands of murders.

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