description: Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to work in a cholera epidemic
language: English
title: The Painted Veil
titlecomplete: The Painted Veil
characters: Walter  Fane, Charlie Townsend, Dorothy Townsend, Kitty Garstin
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, British Literature, China, Romance, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 44439
places: England, Hong Kong, China
publisher: Replica Books