The Cold Palace by Melissa Addey

242 pages first pub 2019 (view editions)

fiction historical mysterious tense slow-paced
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18th century China. In a devastating breach of etiquette, the Empress of China cuts off her hair and is exiled by a furious Emperor to ‘the cold palace’. Historians still do not know what caused her to take this step. Ula Nara is a happy sixteen-y...

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