![]() ![]() Shift to London and Frieda, a think-tank specialist on Islamic youth. Initially, Eva resents the responsibility but soon becomes a passionately devoted mother. ![]() Millicent sloughs responsibility for the orphaned infant, called Ai-Lien, onto Eva. As their safety deteriorates, Eva becomes uncomfortably aware of raw sexual tension between emotionally fragile, epileptic Lizzie and authoritarian, religiously fanatic Millicent. After the mother of a baby Millicent has delivered dies, the three British women are placed under house arrest in the Muslim city of Kashgar. Traveling by bicycle, Eva keeps a notebook she hopes to turn into a book about the journey. British first-time novelist Joinson intersperses a missionary’s adventures along the war-torn Silk Road to China in 1923 with a young woman’s more mundane travails in modern-day London.Įva has accompanied her younger sister Lizzie, a talented photographer, and Lizzie’s domineering religious mentor Millicent to Asia in 1923 without missionary zeal but in search of adventure. ![]()
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