Book description
During her lonely childhood in Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah wrote
adventure stories to escape from her terrible step-mother and cruel
siblings. The characters she created often became more real to her than
her own family. In Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society,
Adeline tells the story of Chinese Cinderella, a young girl who, after
being thrown out of her home, has no choice but to go out and seek her
own destiny. Soon she meets up with a group of children, all orphaned
but each from a different background, who live with an old lady called
Grandma Wu. Chinese Cinderella, or CC for short, decides her future
after consulting an ancient book which helps to show her the way
forward. And her choice takes her on a mission to save the lives of
others. Based on a true-life incident during World War II. CC and the
others bravely rescue a group of American pilots whose plane crashed
after a bombing raid on Japan. Although her father is looking for her,
CC knows that she can never go back to live with her cruel stepmother,
and now there is no turning back.
Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, but grew up in Shanghai, Hong
Kong and London. She attended medical school in London and Edinburgh
and emigrated to California where she became chief of anaethesia at
the hospital where she worked, as well as medical director a surgical clinic.
After the publication of FALLING LEAVES which has sold over
1,000,000 copies worldwide, Adeline gave up medicine to write full time.
She is happily married with two children and lives in California and London.
