The Missing Sister

Belle Hatton is a beautiful young girl living in Gloucestershire, who's never been further East than Paris. But when her father dies, she finds a mysterious newspaper clipping from Burma, 1911 buried among his belongings - a clipping that says the Hattons were leaving Rangoon after the disappearance of their baby daughter, Elvira. How could her parents have kept this from her for so long? Was her sister really dead? And could there be a chance that Belle might find her? Before she knows it Belle is boarding a ship to Rangoon, alone, with no idea what she will find when she gets there ...

Set in

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  Rangoon · Myanmar

  Colonial Burma capital; 1936 setting where Emma searches for her missing sister amid rising nationalism
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  Yangon · Myanmar

  Colonial Rangoon where Belle arrives in 1930s Burma
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• Mandalay · Myanmar

  Belle travels upriver to Mandalay during the novel
• Cheltenham · United Kingdom

  Secondary setting in England where Diana's story unfolds