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The Painted Veil

£8.99

‘She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference’Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages…VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s – 100 years on.

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‘She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference’

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages…

VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s – 100 years on.

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Weight 0.195 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.5 cm
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Paperback

Pages

240

Language

English

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General – Trade / Code: K