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Water Lily

Water Lily

Author(s): Susanna Jones

Location(s): Shanghai, Tokyo

Genre(s): Thriller

Era(s): Modern

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Runa is a young Japanese woman who teaches in a high school and has an affair with one of her pupils. Rather than face the consequences, she flees to Shanghai, where she hopes to meet a friend.
Ralph is an Englishman, lives in Carlisle and used to have a Thai wife, who has disappeared. He is on a quest for a new wife, but fails miserably in securing a new docile partner. He meets Runa on the boat to Shanghai, where he hopes an internet assignation awaits him. He sets his sights on Runa until she reveals more than he expected…and a tragedy ensues.

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Susanna Jones gives readers an interesting insight into the cultural aspects of Japan as she displays her talent as a fine storyteller (Harriet Klausner)

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