Water Music

Fanny Rider is a happily married mother of two and owner of her own small business whose hard-won contentment and sanity is threatened when, out of the blue, she receives a letter from the daughter she abandoned twenty years before.She leaves her family in New York and travels to Hong Kong, where she searches her past and the present for answers to the question of whether she can forge some relationship with the three children, now young adults, she left behind. She explores the once-beautiful, now-decrepit house called Water Music, situated on the South China Sea, which is haunted by violent spirits from its World War II occupation. She had lived there as the young wife of a British diplomat, until the oppressive demands of that life strained her mental health to the point of disaster. This description may be from another edition of this product.