Cover art for The Painted Veil
Published
Vintage Arrow, January 2023
ISBN
9781784878047
Format
Softcover, 240 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.5cm

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

'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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