“Song is just a boy when he sets out from Lishui village in China. Brimming with courage and ambition, he leaves behind his impoverished broken family hoping he’ll make his fortune and return home. Chasing tales of sugarcane, rubber and gold, Song embarks upon a perilous voyage across the globe to the British colony of Guiana, but once there he discovers riches are not so easy to come by and he is forced into labouring as an indentured plantation worker.

This is only the beginning of Song’s remarkable life, but as he finds himself between places and between peoples, and increasingly aware that the circumstances of birth carry more weight than accomplishments or good deeds, Song fears he may live as an outsider forever.

This beautifully written and evocative story spans nearly half a century and half the globe, and though it is set in another century, Song’s story of emigration and the quest for an opportunity to improve his life is timeless.”

Isn’t the cover of this book just beautiful? It is so gorgeous and colourful, I have to have a physical copy to grace my bookshelf and you get an enthralling, epic journey of a story inside to boot.

To celebrate publication of this wonderful book, we have one copy to give away. To be in with a chance of winning, simply leave a comment at the bottom of this post telling me which is your favourite ever book cover. The winner will be picked at random. UK ENTRIES ONLY PLEASE.

If you are not lucky enough to win the copy, you can buy the book here.

Thank you to Anne Cater at Random Things Tours for offering me a place on the tour and to the author and publisher, Unbound, for my copy of the book and the copy for the competition.

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About the Author

 Michelle Jana Chan is an award-winning journalist and travel editor of Vanity Fair. She’s also contributing editor at Condé Nast Traveller, presenter of the BBC’s Global Guide and a writer for the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Travel & Leisure. Michelle has been named the Travel Media Awards’ Travel Writer of the Year. She was a Morehead-Cain scholar at the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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