The Girl with a Thousand Faces 9780008479497 Hardback

Bound to be an immediate classic HANNAH KANERWill tear out your heart and heal it in the same breath ELIZA CHANRichly imagined and transportive OLIVIE BLAKEA haunting story of loneliness, love and loss GARETH BROWN** A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK **A haunting dark urban fantasy set in historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgiveMercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.But the past she cant remember wont let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloons waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy and her forgotten childhood.As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.