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- 2022
- year of publication
- 240
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- vintage_classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-17-8487-804-7
- EAN
- 9781784878047
- Publication date
- 2022-10-06
- Book
- The Painted Veil · 4 editions
The publisher on this edition
'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference' Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages... VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
