Through her diary and the letters she sends to her mother and a friend, we follow the story of Mary, Scottish bride to expatriate, it will join China in the early twentieth century. Gradually, at the risk of being excluded from good society, she will learn to be open to differences and a certain freedom of spirit, far from his British education so polite and rigid. His personal history intersects with the history itself, from the Second World War Manchurian war. This novel is fascinating and moving, of great psychological finesse, and paints a beautiful portrait of a woman, all in subtlety.
