PublishedFaber & Faber, February 2013 |
ISBN9780571283880 |
FormatSoftcover, 320 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.6cm × 1.9cm |
England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.
