Ghost Girl, Banana: Signed Edition
Hardback Published on: 18/05/2023
Price: £14.99
Synopsis
A stunning, powerful debut novel about the choices we make and what it costs to belong, for fans of Brit Bennett and Clare Chambers.
1966: Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honour to her family. As she strives to fit into a world that does not understand her, she realizes that survival will mean carving out a destiny of her own.
1997: Sook-Yin's daughter Lily can barely remember the mother she lost as a small child. But when she is unexpectedly named in the will of a powerful Chinese stranger, she embarks on a secret pilgrimage to Hong Kong to discover the lost side of her identity and claim the reward. But she soon learns that the secrecy around her heritage has deep roots, and good fortune comes at a price.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN: 2369537086399
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Beautiful and impactful debut novel from an exceptional new voice in literature!
Every now and again a book comes along that isn’t typical of your reading habits, but goes on to become one of the most profound and exquisite literary exp... READ MORE
Stunning
I adored Ghost Girl Banana, Lily was such a beautiful character, a delicate vulnerable young woman whose life appeared to be going nowhere.
A letter, an i... READ MORE
Hooked me in from the start
A compelling debut novel, inspired by Wharton's discovery of her mother's diaries detailing her life as a Chinese woman immigrating to England. This is a d... READ MORE
An important read
A novel set between 1960’s-1990’s, set across London and Hong Kong. This is a dual viewpoint book with most chapters flipping between time and character, S... READ MORE
Novel of family set in HONG KONG and SOUTH LONDON
This is a dual timeline novel that opens in 1966, moving through into the 1970s, which then picks up in 1997 Hong Kong, the year of the handover of the isl... READ MORE
Sisterhood, Secrets and Identity
My god, what a book. I could barely stop reading Ghost Girl, Banana by Wiz Wharton this weekend, and just absorbed the final few pages trying not to sob. W... READ MORE
Absorbing and enjoyable debut
4.5 stars
A great book. Thoroughly absorbing, different, harrowing at times but enjoyable.
I only knocked off half a star because the moves from one time... READ MORE
One of my reads of 2023
Anyone else find it difficult to review a book you really loved sometimes? Well when I tell you I read this one 2 months ago and am only now finalising the... READ MORE
Pulls you right in
Thank you to the publishers for this early review copy. Before I received this copy I had already heard great things about this book so I started this book... READ MORE
accomplished debut
A really accomplished debut weaving love, betrayal, survival and trying to find a place in a family and society when you feel an outsider. The author manag... READ MORE
Fantastic debut novel!
I absolutely loved this book! It plunges you straight into, what was for me, an unfamiliar world, but one that is presented in such human terms that it is ... READ MORE
Fantastic debut
This debut novel from Wiz Wharton certainly had me picking it up at every opportunity. A dual time line starting in 1966 with a young Sook-Min travelling t... READ MORE
Ghost Banana Girl
Sook-Yin comes from Hong Kong and leaves to come to the UK to train as a nurse. She did not want to leave her home but her brother, Ah-Chor, was adamant t... READ MORE
Stunning
Ghost Girl, Banana is a stunner. Told from both a mother and daughter's perspective over the last years of the Chinese Windrush in 1966 leading up to Hong ... READ MORE
Beautiful story
Absolutely adored this story of what it means to be accepted, of daughters and mothers, sisters, grief and love. So many themes run through this book seeml... READ MORE
A very moving story, beautifully written
This is a moving and beautiful story by an accomplished writer. I went through so many emotions reading it. It makes you angry and sad at some of the traum... READ MORE