Winter of the Bride

TWO BRIDES. A CENTURY APART. BOUND TOGETHER BY FATE . . . The haunting, romantic book club novel for readers of Kristin Hannah and Kate Morton, with a touch of Jane Eyre 'Enchanting . . . absolutely fascinating and beautifully written' SORAYA LANE, author of the Lost Daughters series 'Immersive, transporting and destined to capture readers everywhere' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz 1806, Cloud Mountain. Jiayi is the lowliest of the Gu family's servants, so she is thrilled when their son and heir chooses her to be his 'little wife'. But this quasi-marriage offers no security, and Jiayi's situation becomes increasingly perilous with her husband's family plotting against her. 1906, Shanghai. Scarlet is devoted to her work as a midwife in Red House Hospital, and can't imagine abandoning it for the constraints of marriage - until she meets benefactor Wenqiang Gu. After a whirlwind courtship, he persuades her to join him at his remote estate and to bring modern medicine to the village. Scarlet arrives at Cloud Mountain only to find her new marriage overshadowed by superstition. The villagers believe the family is cursed, and soon Scarlet begins to fear her fate is bound to that of another bride, one who lived a hundred years before . . . 'Fast-paced, immersive, and haunting . . . Yang has such a gift for bringing historic China to life with her impeccable research and evocative writing' MADELINE MARTIN 'In exhilarating detail, Yang weaves this mystical historical fiction with elements of the supernatural as the ghost of one woman intersects with the living being of the other' ALKA JOSHI 'Mesmerising. Jane Yang masterfully creates this 19th century lost world' THE TIMES on The Lotus Shoes 'This story of love, loss and betrayal will leave a deep imprint on your soul' WOMAN & HOME on The Lotus Shoes