The Lotus Shoes

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Pub Date Jan 28 2025 | Archive Date Dec 12 2024

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Description

An astonishing story set in 1800s China. Little Flower is sold into slavery, and Linjing into marriage . . .

Love and loss. Sisterhood and betrayal. Little Flower and Linjing's fates are bound together.

As a child, Little Flower is sold to Linjing's wealthy family to become a muizai. In a fit of childish jealousy over her new handmaiden's ladylike bound feet and talent for embroidery, Linjing ensures Little Flower can never leave her to ascend in society.

Despite their starkly different places in the Fong household, over the years the two girls must work together to secure both their futures through Linjing's marriage. As the two grow up, they are by turns bitter rivals and tentative friends.

Until scandal strikes the family, and Linjing and Little Flower's lives are unexpectedly thrown into chaos. Linjing's fall from grace could be an opportunity for Little Flower - but will their intertwined fates lead to triumph, or tragedy for them both?

An astonishing story set in 1800s China. Little Flower is sold into slavery, and Linjing into marriage . . .

Love and loss. Sisterhood and betrayal. Little Flower and Linjing's fates are bound...


Advance Praise

'Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling, and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very, very long time' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

‘A captivating and exquisitely rendered novel. I was invested from the first page until the very last words’ MELISSA FU

‘More than a book, this novel is an act of liberation and empowerment for women everywhere’ NGUYEN PHAN QUE MAI

'Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling, and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very, very long time' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

‘A captivating and...


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ISBN 9781408730317
PRICE A$32.99 (AUD)

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