'A real charmer and a fine debut.' - Deborah Rodriguez, author of The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. Mr Chen's Emporium is an enchanting tale of forbidden love and following one's heart... In 1872, seventeen-year-old Amy Duncan arrives in the Gold Rush town of Millbrooke, having spent the coach journey daydreaming about glittering pavilions and gilded steeples. What she finds is a dusty main street lined with ramshackle buildings. That is until she walks through the doors of Mr Chen's Emporium, a veritable Aladdin's cave, and her life changes forever. Though banned from the store by her dour clergyman father, Amy is entranced by its handsome owner, Charles Chen ... In present-day Millbrooke, recently widowed artist Angie Wallace has rented the Old Manse where Amy once lived. When her landlord produces an antique trunk containing Amy's intriguingly diverse keepsakes - both Oriental and European - Angie resolves to learn more about this mysterious girl from the past. And it's not long before the lives of two very different women, born a century apart, become connected in the most poignant and timeless ways.
- ISBN:
- 9781742755540
- 9781742755540
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 18-09-2012
- Publisher:
- Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
- Country of origin:
- Australia
- Edition:
- 2nd Edition
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions (mm):
- 234x155x27mm
- Weight:
- 0.45kg
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