Leah Fleming: The Last Pearl [2016] paperback ZCHEA It is a place unsafe

It is a place unsafe for humans

better known as the Japanese 'suicide forest' that lies in the shadow of Mount Fuji

I've lived three very different lives: the one before prison

eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature

but when Ila asks her to return to the House

Leah Fleming: The Last Pearl [2016] paperback ZCHEA It is a place unsafeFROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER AND DANCING AT THE VICTORY CAFE, this is a beautiful novel about one magnificent gem, and three lives bound together by fate 1879, York. Greta Costello must rely on her wits to survive. She finds refuge as a Saturday girl for an old jeweller, Saul Abrahams, and her eye for detail, her long fingers and appreciation of beauty persuade Saul to train her as a pearl stringer. This skill will lead her