The Sisters Mao

<p><strong>A <em>Sunday Independent</em> Book of the Year</strong></p> <p><strong>Against the backdrop of China&#146;s Cultural Revolution and Europe&#146;s sexual revolution the fates of two families in London and Beijing become unexpectedly intertwined in this dazzling new novel from the author of <em>Mrs Engels</em>.</strong></p> <p>In London sisters Iris and Eva plan an attack on the West End theatre where their mother is playing the title role in <em>Miss Julie</em>; in Beijing Jiang Qing Chairman Mao&#146;s wife rehearses a gala performance of her model ballet which she will use to attack her enemies in the Party.</p> <p>As the preparations for these two performances unfold these three &#145;sisters&#146; find themselves bound together by the passions of love by the obsessions of power and by the forces of history.</p> <p>Exquisitely observed relevant and wise <em>The Sisters Mao</em> shows us that the political is always personal.</p>