findahwa.blogg.se - The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall

Chang An Lo : Lydia's boyfriend, who was kung fu master becomes high-ranking officer, who still loves Lydia after she goes to Russia Chang decides quit to find her.

Lydia Ivanova : 17-year-old red-headed girl who was born to a Danish father and Russian mother exiled from Russia at age of 5, after her father Jens was captured by Russians and taken away becomes lovers with Chang An Lo Lydia learns she and Alexai had same father Jens she goes to Russia after her mother's death to find Jens.

Things turn worse when Alexai goes missing and Lydia finds herself for trouble it's now up to Chang An Lo to save her. Meanwhile, in China her lover, Chang An Lo, is a high-ranking officer in Mao Zedong's army, after being released from prison. While on the train to Russia, she meets Antonina, who is the wife of Dmitri Malofeyev, the ruthless officer who is head of the camp where her father is.

Lydia Ivanova goes with her half-brother, Alexai Serov, and their protector, Live Popkov, to find Lydia and Alexai's father, who was prisoner of a labor camp. This book is set after events of The Russian Concubine, after Lydia's mother's death by spies and after she discovered family secrets of her father, Jens. It followed by journey of Lydia Ivanova and Chang An Lo, whose separation lives when she searched for her father along with her half-brother and Chang is a high-ranking officer. The Russian Concubine contains fictional characters and events, but Kate made use of the extraordinary situation that was her mother's childhood experience - that of two White Russian refugees, a mother and daughter, stuck without money or papers in an International Settlement in China.The Concubine's Secret, as known as The Girl from Junchow in USA, is a 2009 novel by Kate Furnivall it is the sequel to The Russian Concubine. It was when her mother died in 2000 that Kate decided to write a book inspired by her mother's story. She travelled widely, giving her an insight into how different cultures function which was to prove invaluable when writing The Russian Concubine. Then into advertising where she met her future husband, Norman.

Kate went to London University where she studied English and from there she went into publishing, writing material for a series of books on the canals of Britain. These values Kate explores in The Russian Concubine. Her mother, whose own childhood was spent in Russia, China and India, discovered at an early age that the world around us is so volatile, that the only things of true value are those inside your head and your heart. Kate Furnivall was raised in Penarth, a small seaside town in Wales.