Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages and have been on the Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller lists. Kate is the author of ten novels, including THE SURVIVORS, THE RUSSIAN CONCUBINE, THE LIBERATION and THE BETRAYAL. This is her second novel, after The Russian Concubine. That extraordinary tale inspired her first book, THE RUSSIAN CONCUBINE.
‘For fans of historical, epic fiction, it doesn’t get much better than this ? exciting and atmospheric, with strong and gutsy characters’ The Bookseller ‘This gripping novel is poignant, beautifully written and will capture the reader to the last’ Sun Kate Furnivall lives in Devon. Her perilous search takes her from industrial factories to remote villages, where she discovers a web of secrecy and lies, but also bonds of courage and loyalty ? and an overwhelming love that threatens her promise to Anna. Russia, gripped by the iron fist of Communism, is no longer the country of her friend’s childhood. So when Anna falls gravely ill, Sofia makes a promise to escape the camp and find Vasily: to chase the memory that has for so long spun hope in both their hearts.
Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walking free and the stories told by her friend Anna, beguiling tales of a charmed upbringing in Petrograd ? and of Anna’s fervent love for a passionate revolutionary, Vasily. Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. Despite these flaws, Furnivall vividly evokes Lydia's character and personal struggles against a backdrop of depravity and corruption.Under a Blood Red Sky is a breathtaking epic novel a tale of love, escape, revenge and redemption. Violence is more prevalent (and graphic) than sex, and the narrative has extended periods of inertia during which there is much action, but not of the plot-advancing sort. Theo's struggle to preserve his school and his happy life with his Chinese mistress, Li Mei, drives him to collude with Li Mei's estranged father the leader of the Black Snakes to run opium into Junchow. Lydia's travails are mirrored by those of Theo Willoughby, the British headmaster of her school. Danger is never far as the two fall in love. When Lydia inadvertently attracts the unwelcome attentions of a criminal gang, the Black Snakes, she finds a rescuer in Chang An Lo, an English-speaking Communist and kung fu master. Valentina Ivanova and her 16-year-old daughter, Lydia, White Russian refugees, live in grinding poverty in the International Settlement of Junchow, subsisting off whatever presents Valentina can charm from gentlemen admirers and the profits Lydia makes from pawning stolen goods. The experiences of the author's mother inspired this debut novel, a somewhat improbable tale of star-crossed love in 1928 China.
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