Ghost Girl, Banana, Wiz Wharton
Ghost Girl, Banana, Wiz Wharton
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Ghost Girl, Banana
A Novel

Author: Wiz Wharton

Narrator: Hanako Footman, Jennifer Leong

Unabridged: 12 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperVia

Published: 04/25/2023

Synopsis

Set between the last years of the “Chinese Windrush” in 1966 and Hong Kong’s Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother’s homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity, and the price of belonging.Hong Kong, 1966. Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honor to her family. But as she trains to become a nurse in cold and wet England, Sook-Yin realizes that, like so many transplants, she must carve out a destiny of her own to survive.Thirty years later in London, having lost her mother as a small child, biracial misfit Lily can only remember what Maya, her preternaturally perfect older sister, has told her about Sook-Yin. Unexpectedly named in the will of a powerful Chinese stranger, Lily embarks on a secret pilgrimage across the world to discover the lost side of her identity and claim the reward. But just as change is coming to Hong Kong, so Lily learns Maya’s secrecy about their past has deep roots, and that good fortune comes at a price. Heartfelt, wry and achingly real, Ghost Girl, Banana marks the stunning debut of a writer-to-watch.  

About Wiz Wharton

Wiz Wharton was born in London of Chinese-European heritage. She is a prize-winning graduate of the National Film and Television School, where she studied screenwriting under filmmakers Stephen Frears, Mike Leigh, and Kenith Trodd. She and her work have been featured on various broadcast platforms, including radio and television, and in print. She was the 2020 winner of the Jericho Writers’ Self-Editing Your Novel Course Bursary and a finalist in the DHA New Writers’ Open Week. She currently divides her time between London and the Scottish Highlands.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amina on May 22, 2023

Knowledge changes your perception of things...Past conversations took on new meaning An engrossing story of the lengths we take to uncover the truth. If you discover everything you thought, everything you know--a fabrication of your fragile mental health, what do you do? You go to search for the......more

Goodreads review by luce (cry bebè's back from hiatus) on March 04, 2023

3 ¼ stars “And there it was—that wall. Her experiences versus mine, as if she owned that part of history and I could only receive it second hand. Sometimes. Rarely. Never.” Uneven execution aside, Ghost Girl, Banana makes for a compelling and immersive spanning decades and continents, exploring ident......more

Goodreads review by BookOfCinz on April 16, 2023

A page turner, with a cast of characters you want to hear more from Wiz Wharton Ghost Girl Banana goes from the 1966 during the “Chinese Windrush” and 1997. During the 1966 we meet Sook-Yin who leaves Kowloon to go to London for a better life. Her family sends her off to restore their honor, make......more

Goodreads review by Kate on February 24, 2023

4.5 stars A great book. Thoroughly absorbing, different, harrowing at times but enjoyable. I only knocked off half a star because the moves from one timeline to another came too fast at the beginning; I was just getting into one story when we jumped. Towards the middle of the book I became grateful......more

Goodreads review by Aoife on November 04, 2023

I had a galley of this book for a while and put off reading it, not knowing what it was about but mistakenly thinking it was sad-girl Brit lit. How wrong was I! Ghost Girl, Banana is a mother-daughter story set in London and Hong Kong, in a dual timeline from 1966-1977 and in 1997, at the time of th......more

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