Kirsty Manning. (2019). The Song of the Jade Lily: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Kirsty Manning. 2019. The Song of the Jade Lily: A Novel. HarperAudio.

Kirsty Manning, The Song of the Jade Lily: A Novel. HarperAudio, 2019.

Kirsty Manning. The Song of the Jade Lily: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2019.

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     Kirsty Manning is the author of The Song of the Jade Lily, The Lost Jewels, and The French Gift. She grew up in northern New South Wales, Australia. She has degrees in literature and communications and worked as an editor and publishing manager in book publishing for over a decade. A country girl with wanderlust, her travels and studies have taken her through most of Europe, the east, and west coasts of the United States as well as pockets of Asia. Kirsty's journalism and photography specializing in lifestyle and travel regularly appear in magazines, newspapers, and online. She lives in Australia.

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"Kirsty Manning weaves together little-known threads of World War II history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turning, beautiful novel.""— Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

A gripping historical novel that tells the little-known story of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.

1939: Two young girls meet in Shanghai, also known as the "Paris of the East". Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy form a fierce friendship, but the deepening shadows of World War II fall over the women as they slip between the city's glamorous French Concession district and the teeming streets of the Shanghai Ghetto. Yet soon the realities of war prove to be too much for these close friends as they are torn apart.

2016: Fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm. Her grandfather is dying, and over the coming weeks Romy and Wilhelm begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century. As fragments of her mother's history finally become clear, Alexandra struggles with what she learns while more is also revealed about her grandmother's own past in Shanghai.

After Wilhelm dies, Alexandra flies to Shanghai, determined to trace her grandparents' past. Peeling back the layers of their hidden lives, she is forced to question what she knows about her family—and herself.
The Song of the Jade Lily is a lush, provocative, and beautiful story of friendship, motherhood, the price of love, and the power of hardship and courage that can shape us all.

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     June 10, 2019
     Australian author Manning makes her American debut with this superb take on a lesser known aspect of WWII: some European Jews, fleeing from the Nazis, received asylum in Japanese-occupied Shanghai after being denied it elsewhere. Set during WWII and the present day, the dual narrators Romy and her granddaughter, commodities trader Alexandra, find their narratives blended when a family secret is revealed. In 1939, after a deadly pogrom in Vienna, Romy, 12, and her parents arrive in Shanghai, where they befriend the Ho family; beautiful singer Li Ho and brilliant Romy become inseparable. Manning embellishes their coming-of-age story with Shanghai’s culture (street vendors, rickshaws, traditional Chinese medicine); hardships (crowded housing, food deprivation); and political retribution against the Ho family. Romy and Li share a powerful, life-changing experience that reaches into future generations. In 2016, with Romy settled in Melbourne, Alexandra leaves London after a breakup to be with her grandparents; after her grandfather dies, she goes to Shanghai for a new job and begins researching her adopted mother’s murky ancestry. After a serendipitous encounter with a shop owner and Romy’s stunning revelations, Alexandra pieces together her family history. With breadth and intelligence, this exquisite novel portrays a resilient community and a secret kept to protect another.

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   • content: Saskia Maarleveld narrates this dual-time-period audiobook with care and empathy. With the help of well-placed connections, 13-year-old Romy Bernfeld and her parents, who are Jewish, flee Nazi-occupied Austria for Shanghai, one of the few places in the world where no visa is required for entry. The contemporary story concerns Romy's granddaughter, Alexandra, who travels from Australia to Shanghai to learn about the origins of her late mother, who was adopted from China by her grandparents. Maarleveld excels at creating emotionally nuanced male and female characters and is adept with a variety of accents, including American, Australian, Chinese, and German. She seamlessly shifts between time periods, and her comfortable pacing and skilled phrasing appreciably enhance this multigenerational listen. M.J. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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