# The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure

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- Book: [The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-williams/the-palace-of-heavenly-pleasure) ([The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-williams/the-palace-of-heavenly-pleasure.md))
- Authors: [Adam Williams](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-williams)
- Publisher: hodder_paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-03-4082-787-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2004-04-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A group of foreigners in the northeastern town of Shishan finds the status quo upset when Helen Frances, a young woman with a middle class upbringing but a fatal flaw, arrives and falls in love with the Hon Henry Manners. The most astonishing range of characters awaits you in this novel; the wicked brothel-keeper Madam Liu and her sadistic son Ren Ren, the pragmatic, rational missionary Dr Airton, the American zealot Septimus Harding, the equivocal Mandarin. Not to mention the wonderfully complicated anti-hero Henry Manners, the prostitutes Fan Yimei and Shen Ping, the bandit Iron Man Wang, the Mongolian shaman. And the ingénue, Helen Frances herself, whose innocence covers an unorthodox curiosity.