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Author of best-selling novel Peking Picnic, Ann Bridge brings us her second novel set amongst the diplomatic circle of Peking. First published in 1934, The Ginger Griffin tells the story of a young English woman who comes to Peking to live with her diplomatic uncle, on a quest to get…
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Ann Bridge transports the reader to a long-lost world: Peking (now Beijing) in the 1920s, during the Warlord Period. As Chinese warlords battle for supremacy, the European delegations and trade representatives in Peking live safely in their own enclave, enjoying a social whirl of parties, riding in the surrounding countryside, and racing the 'griffins', little Mongolian horses brought down from the north and trained for that purpose. We explore this world through the eyes of Amber Harrison from the Cotswolds in England, who travels out to Peking to escape an unhappy love affair. Alongside the fascinating descriptions of Peking and…
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