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A story of love and betrayal in the Far east. A young Scotswoman sails to Peking to marry a military attache stationed there.The year is 1903 and she scandalizes the British in Peking by falling into an adulterous affair with a young Japanese nobleman. Her turmoil begins when she is torn from her small daughter and turned out of the European community.How she survives in this Eastern culture that barely tolerated women is the story of The Ginger Tree, spanning more than forty years in the Far East.