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Waller, Sharon Biggs

The Forbidden Orchid

401 pp. | Viking | March, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-451-47411-7 $18.99
(3) YA In 1861, Elodie's plant-growing talent, impertinent interest in Darwin, and determination to keep her eight sisters from financial humiliation leads her to accompany her struggling plant-hunter father to China in search of rare orchids. Adventure, romance, and friendship temper the journey's hardships. Waller builds engrossing fiction on a firm historical skeleton (notes appended), from England's Kew Gardens to the Opium Wars in China.
Reviewer: Megan Lynn Isaac

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