Love and Other Consolation Prizes

A new novel from the author of bestselling "Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter & Sweet", this is set in Seattle and moves between 1909 and 1962, as Ernest looks back on the past and the memories of being raffled off as a prize as the World's Fair.

Summary

1909: At the World's Fair a half-Chinese boy is raffled off as a prize. Working in Seattle's famed Red Light District, he falls in love with Maisie, the daughter of a madam, and Fahn, a Japanese maid sold into servitude. In 1962 he looks back on the past and the memories he made with his wife, while his daughter begins to unravel their tragic past.

Product details

• Authors: Jamie Ford, Jamie (Author) Ford
• Publisher: Allison and Busby
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780749022808
• ISBN: 978-0-7490-2280-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature