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English
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Biography
History
Fairy Tales
Women
Social Conditions
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Walker Books Ltd 7 views
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0744598753, 9780744598759
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Berlie Doherty

Berlie Doherty is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for children's books, for which she has twice won the Carnegie Medal. She has also written novels for adults, plays for theatre and radio, television series and libretti for children's opera.

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At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China...

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"Jung Chang vividly evokes China's sights, sounds, and smells to create what must be one of the grimmest, yet most perceptive accounts of growing up middle-class in the maelstrom that has swept China since the 1920s." - Back cover.

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