A Test of Fortitude

Some duties cannot be delegated. Some words cannot be taken back.

Wang Xiu has built a precise London life: a career in numbers, a partner of twenty years who understands her without being asked, and a promise still unkept. Two years after her mother’s death, the ashes wait on a shelf in Beijing, for Xiu to come and lay her to rest.

Then a catastrophic haemorrhage deep in Xiu’s brainstem threatens to take everything: her movement, her independence, her chance to see her mother right.

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