# The Interpreter's Daughter

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- Book: [The Interpreter's Daughter](https://www.bookquiver.com/teresa-lim/the-interpreters-daughter) ([The Interpreter's Daughter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/teresa-lim/the-interpreters-daughter.md))
- Authors: [Teresa Lim](https://www.bookquiver.com/teresa-lim)
- Publisher: michael_joseph
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4154-442-6
- Published: 2022-06-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A cherished family photograph, taken in Hong Kong, 1935, sets Teresa Lim on a journey to uncover her family history. Through detective work, serendipity, and the kindness of strangers she was guided to the fascinating, ordinary, extraordinary life of her great-aunt Fanny, and her world of sworn spinsters, ghost husbands and the working-class feminists of 19th century south China. But to recover her great-aunt's past, we must first get to know Fanny's family, the times and circumstances in which they lived, and the momentous yet forgotten conflicts that would lead to war in Singapore and, ultimately, a long-buried family tragedy.