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Book Review of The Ginger Tree

The Ginger Tree
The Ginger Tree
Author: Oswald Wynd
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Unknown Binding
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In 1903, a naive, inexperienced Scottish girl, Mary Mckenzie, sails to Peking to marry her fiance, British military attache, Richard Collingsworth, younger son of an upper class family. After a long and trying voyage, she is befriended by a sophisticated older Frenchwoman, who introduces her to a Japanese soldier, Count Kurihama.