The hungry ghosts
By: Anne Berry
Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9781554684533
Subjects: Young women; Fiction
Description: Alice Safford, troubled daughter of a leading figure in Hong Kong's colonial government, explores the site of an old army hospital. The "hungry ghost" of a young Chinese girl, murdered during the Island's Japanese occupation 25 years earlier awaits her in the morgue's shadows. The perfect host for the parasite, Alice returns with the ghost to the family's luxury home on The Peak. Here, the lethal mix of the two, entangled in the Safford's family's web of dark secrets and desperate lies, unleashes chaos. This dark and gripping debut novel is a feast for the imagination.