Paola Mazzarelli Books

In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives

Growing up in contemporary London, Sara struggles to understand her Iranian mother, Maryam. When tragedy strikes, Sara realises that only by learning more about her mother will she be able to live her own life fully.