The ghost bride book7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Li Lan’s father assures her that he will not agree to the arrangement without her consent, but when the ghost of Lim Tian Ching begins haunting her in dreams Li Lan realizes that it may not be that easy to escape this marriage. Then the wealthy Lim family reaches out with a proposal that is equally tempting and distasteful-they want Li Lan to enter into a ghost marriage with their recently deceased heir, Lim Tian Ching. ![]() Li Lan’s father was once a successful merchant in the port town of Malacca, but now the family fortune has dwindled and Li Lan’s prospects are bleak. ![]() The Ghost Bride brings together everything I love-the Victorian era, ghosts, romance, and learning about other cultures-all in one story, and I’m so excited to have come across this new author. ![]() Set in 1890s Malaysia (or Malaya, as it was called at the time), the book is historical fiction with a paranormal twist, drawing on Chinese mythology and notions of the afterlife, as well as the author’s own imagination. Getting married to a complete stranger can be terrifying … especially if that stranger is already dead! Yangsze Choo tackles the obscure cultural practice of “ghost marriages” in her debut novel, The Ghost Bride.
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