Peony’s quest to find happiness and connect with the man is disrupted when the Manchus seize power and overtake the Ming dynasty.Ī Memory of Violets: A Novel of London’s Flower Sellers by Hazel Gaynor While there, she becomes enraptured with a young man. See’s historical novel follows a young Chinese woman named Peony who sneaks away from her family home to watch an epic opera. As her talent and professional success blossoms, her hopes for a peaceful, loving marriage dim. The Blood of Flowers by Anita AmirrezvaniĪmirrezvani’s novel follows a young woman in seventeenth-century Persia who must work as a servant for her uncle, a rug designer, after the death of her father. This is a great book for fans of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander books. There, she finds herself falling in love with a man who died centuries before she was born. In addition to finding the ghosts of her own past, Eva discovers that she can stumble hundreds of years in the past. After the death of her sister, Eva returns to her hometown to scatter her ashes. Continuing the theme of melodrama, we have The Rose Garden.
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