6/28/2023 0 Comments Ghostgirl book![]() The novel came about when Wharton was moving house in 2020: ‘I discovered a box of my late mum’s belongings that had come from her house in Brixton. ‘It was really important for me to show the mirrors across the generations, and how we seem to have come, and yet how far we have to go.’ ![]() ![]() ‘She was a trier,’ author Wiz Wharton tells Grazia. With her efforts to be happy and accepted – and to find a sense of belonging – thwarted at every turn, your heart begins to ache for her. And Sook-Yin, who leaves Kowloon and arrives in a wet, lonely, and racist Britain in 1966, with the aim of becoming a nurse. Years later, when Lily receives an unexpected inheritance from a mystery benefactor in Hong Kong, she decides to travel to her mother’s birthplace to find out why – and uncovers the secrets her family have been hiding for so long.Īs we hop between timelines, we meet Lily – a funny and musically talented 20-something who, as a biracial child growing up in the shadow of a seemingly perfect sister, never quite seemed to fit in. ![]() Set between the dual timelines of the ‘Chinese Windrush’ in the 1960s, and London in the 1990s, this is the story of Sook-Yin and her daughter Lily, who can barely remember the mother she lost when she was barely five-years-old. ![]()
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