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For years Charlotte has hidden her ethnicity using white Elizabethan makeup to help her title-rich but cash-poor family survive

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The Rice Paper Diaries - Francesca Rhydderch no discount 'The best debut novel I'veIn 1996 Elsa lies in hospital reflecting on a past full of contrasts of place, language and circumstances, of safety and danger, and the awakening and dying of love. Back in 1940, far from their west Wales home, Elsa and her first husband, Captain Tommy Jones, had lived the privileged colonial life of Allied civilian ex patriots in Hong Kong, their experiences both interdependent and contrasting with those of the Chinese who serve them. While news of