The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry (Paperback, 2010)

The Hungry GhostsAuthor(s): Anne Berry\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Borough Press\nISBN-13: 9780007303380, 978-0007303380\nSynopsis\n'A stunning debut' Woman & Home\n\nWinner of Amazons Rising Stars competition\n\nShortlisted for The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2010\n\nShortlisted for The Waterstones Book Circle Award\n\nShortlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize\n\nJapanese occupied Hong Kong, 1942.\n\nRaped then murdered, Lin Shuis Hungry Ghost clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, destined to become a school, just in time she finds a host off whom to feed. It is 12-year-old Alice Safford, the deeply-troubled daughter of a leading figure in government. The parasitic ghost follows her to her home on the Peak. There, the lethal mix of the two, embroiled in the familys web of dark secrets and desperate lies, unleashes chaos.\n\nAll this unfolds against a background of colonial unrest, riots, extremes of wt