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The fall and rise of Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, is set in counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, in this sequel to The Commodore. While savouring an apparent reprieve for his career, Aubrey receives news that Napoleon has escaped.

LuLing Young is now in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is l...