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Exhibit Alexandra written by Natasha Bell performed by Katherine McEwan on Audio CD (Unabridged)

Exhibit Alexandra written by Natasha Bell performed by Katherine McEwan on Audio CD (Unabridged)£19.99

Before she disappeared, Alexandra Southwood lived an average, happy life: devoted to the care and upkeep of her husband, Marc, and their two beautiful daughters. But now, held in a room against her will, Alexandra is forced to imagine how her family is coping in the wake of her disappearance. She finds solace in memories of their past, recalling...

Empress Orchid written by Anchee Min performed by Alexandra O'Karma on CD (Unabridged)

Empress Orchid written by Anchee Min performed by Alexandra O'Karma on CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781845052829
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Modern
Duration:  1080 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Anchee Min
Narrator 1:  Alexandra O'Karma

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To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her cousin, 17-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine, she enters the ritualised Forbidden City and is exposed to all the chaos, corruption, and treachery of the final days ...

of the Chinese empire, including the thousands of concubines who will stoop to any lengths to bear the Emperor's son. Orchid succeeds in bribing her way into the royal bed and seduces the monarch, drawing the attention of dangerous foes.

She does not know, however, that China will collapse around her and that she will be its last Empress. Chinese schoolchildren are taught that Empress Orchid destroyed China's 2,000-year-old imperial culture.

This imaginative account peers beyond the notoriety to the real woman and is wonderfully read by Pik-sen Lim.

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