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Lisa Butts
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Lily Miller is 25 years old, still grieving from the recent death of her father and struggling toward normalcy after a suicide attempt, when she receives a letter in the mail stating that a Hong Kong man named Hei-Fong Lee has died and left her a £500,000 inheritance. The money is contingent upon Lily traveling to Hong Kong to receive it, and other than that, details are sparse. Lily assumes Lee must have known her mother, Sook-Yin, who died when Lily was five, and who her older sister Maya and their father Julian rarely spoke of. Determined to learn something about her mother, and perhaps make a fortune in the process, Lily sets out from her home in London for Hong Kong. It is 1997, the year the United Kingdom handed over rule of its former colony to China (see Beyond the Book).
Interspersed with Lily's narrative is that of Sook-Yin, unfolding over the course of the late 1960s-...
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