Bickmore is a wonderful writer. Like all her books, Distant Star is complex and deep, revealing as much about the human character as about life in China.
If you love reading history, then this book of China's history starting in year 1923 will would captivate your interest. It covered a period of the Chinese revolution. It is a well written novel, I couldn't put it down once started. Usually I do not like books with profanity, however, there was only one burst of profanity in the whole book; I could understand why the author used the words of profanity; Cheloe the main character was very distraut over learning of her husbands unfaithful character. I loved the book.
