2 Books by Anne Berry
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Overview: Anne Berry was born in London in 1956, then spent much of her infancy in Aden, before moving on to Hong Kong at the age of six, where she was educated. She worked for a short period as a journalist for the South China Morning Post, before returning to Britain. After completing a three-year acting course, she embarked on a career in theatre, playing everything from pantomime to Shakespeare. She now lives in Surrey with her husband and four children. ‘The Hungry Ghosts’ is her first novel.
Genre: Fiction > General
The Hungry Ghosts
Raped then murdered in Japanese occupied Hong Kong, 1942, Lin Shui’s ‘Hungry Ghost’ clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, destined to become a school, just in time she finds a host off whom to feed. It is 12-year-old Alice Safford, the deeply-troubled daughter of a leading figure in government. The parasitic ghost follows her to her home on the Peak. There, the lethal mix of the two, embroiled in the family’s web of dark secrets and desperate lies, unleashes chaos. All this unfolds against a background of colonial unrest, riots, extremes of weather and the countdown to the return of the colony to China. As successive tragedies engulf Alice, her ghostly entourage swells alarmingly. She flees to England, then France, in a bid to escape the past, only to find her portable ‘Hungry Ghosts’ have accompanied her. It seems the peace she longs for is to prove far more elusive that she could ever have imagined. The Hungy Ghosts is a remarkable tour-de-force of the imagination, full of instantly memorable characters whose lives intermesh and boil over in a cauldron of domestic mayhem, unleashing unworldly spirits into the troubled air.
The Adoption
Wales, forties. The young Bethan falls in love, reciprocated, a German prisoner of war and becomes pregnant. Guilty of having granted to the enemy, stained by dishonor, Bethan is segregated in the house and forced the family to give her baby up for adoption, Lucilla. Sixties, the era of protest. Lucilla has grown, she feels free and independent. It can not stand the severity and prejudices of his parents, and has a bad relationship with her mother Harriet, who is always cold and distant, and seems not to have ever really loved. And one day, at age 14, he discovers the truth: that is not his real family … And so, years later, after the death of Harriet, Lucilla decided to go in search of her birth mother. She is the daughter Gina insisted that haunts her roots and shed light on the past. But too much time has passed, and too many tears have been shed …
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