Scan barcode
A review by kate66
Ghost Girl, Banana by Wiz Wharton
4.0
4.5 stars
A great book. Thoroughly absorbing, different, harrowing at times but enjoyable.
I only knocked off half a star because the moves from one timeline to another came too fast at the beginning; I was just getting into one story when we jumped. Towards the middle of the book I became grateful for those quick changes.
Anyway the story is split between Lily in 1997 and her mother, Sook-Yin, from 1966 to 1977. It's a story about discovering who you are, where you fit in your world, love and betrayal. Lily was too young to remember her mother who died when she was four but a mysterious letter offering a huge inheritance gives Lily a chance to escape her fractured life to find out what really happened to her mother in Hong Kong.
This book started slow for me but it builds momentum throughout until I was racing through it, unable to pit it down until I polished off the second half in one sitting.
This may be Wiz Wharton's debut novel but I certainly hope it won't be her last. She has an undoubted talent for story telling and even though this was based on her own ancestry it became a novel through an obviously vivid imagination.
Highly recommended.
A great book. Thoroughly absorbing, different, harrowing at times but enjoyable.
I only knocked off half a star because the moves from one timeline to another came too fast at the beginning; I was just getting into one story when we jumped. Towards the middle of the book I became grateful for those quick changes.
Anyway the story is split between Lily in 1997 and her mother, Sook-Yin, from 1966 to 1977. It's a story about discovering who you are, where you fit in your world, love and betrayal. Lily was too young to remember her mother who died when she was four but a mysterious letter offering a huge inheritance gives Lily a chance to escape her fractured life to find out what really happened to her mother in Hong Kong.
This book started slow for me but it builds momentum throughout until I was racing through it, unable to pit it down until I polished off the second half in one sitting.
This may be Wiz Wharton's debut novel but I certainly hope it won't be her last. She has an undoubted talent for story telling and even though this was based on her own ancestry it became a novel through an obviously vivid imagination.
Highly recommended.