The fox wife
Choo, Yangsze2025
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Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalisingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now. Meanwhile, the family of a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure all ailments - except the curse that afflicts them. All their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. Now the only grandson of the family is twenty-three. When a mysterious woman enters their household, their luck seems to change. But is their new servant a simple young woman from the north, or a fox spirit bent on her own revenge?
Main title:
The fox wife / Yangsze Choo.
Author:
Choo, Yangsze, author
Imprint:
London : Quercus, 2025.
Collation:
479 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2024.
ISBN:
9781529429770 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6HAFAF/PBK
LC class:
PS3603.H664
Local class:
FT PbkFIC
Language:
English
BRN:
4060787