The next book to be featured this season on the Sara Cox Radio 2 Book Club is The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean—a haunting dark urban fantasy set in historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive.
The book was released on 7 May and Sunyi’s interview with Sara is on BBC Sounds from Tuesday 16 June.
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The Girl with a Thousand Faces
Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.
But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy and her forgotten childhood.
As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.
About the author
Sunyi Dean is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book Eaters. Originally born in Texas and raised in Hong Kong, she now resides in a Yorkshire cottage full of music and books. Her most recent novel, The Girl with a Thousand Faces, was inspired by her upbringing: her old high school was once a mission house on the edge of the original Walled City of Kowloon, and her grandparents survived the Japanese occupation during World War II.
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