'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference' Kitty Fane
is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong.
Unsatisfied by her marriage she starts an affair with charming attractive and exciting
Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception he exacts a strange and terrible
vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China where a
cholera epidemic rages... VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing daring novels to celebrate the 1920s -
100 years on.
