Oswald Wynd Ginger tree

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In 1903, a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed, a military attachE in Peking.

But soon after her arrival, Mary falls into an adulterous affair with a young Japanese nobleman, scandalizing the British community.

Casting her out of the European community, her compatriots tear her away from her small daughter.

A woman abandoned and alone, Mary learns to survive over forty tumultuous years in Asia, including two world wars and the cataclysmic Tokyo earthquake of 1923.