The Painted Veil Medical imaging Winner2019 ABIA Matt Richell Award

Winner2019 ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year

while staying true to what she knows is right

Jackie Kneeshaw

igniting tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices lying beneath the city’s surface

In the two decades since its original publication

The Painted Veil Medical imaging Winner2019 ABIA Matt Richell AwardStunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where