Australian Author Emma Harcourt

This was for the Daily Telegraph to go with the release of Emma’s book ‘The Shanghai Wife’, second book released this year ✨

After the initial photoshoot at home, we headed to #bondibeach for a more lifestyle vibe.

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Emma Harcourt Bio

Emma Harcourt has worked as a journalist for over 25 years, in Australia, the UK and Hong Kong. In 2011, she completed the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course, and The Shanghai Wife was borne. Emma lives in Sydney with her two daughters. Book two out 2022.

The Shanghai Wife is about

Forbidden friendship, political conspiracy and incendiary passion draw Australian woman Annie Brand deep into the glamour and turmoil of 1920s Shanghai.

Leaving behind the loneliness and trauma of her past in country Australia, Annie Brand arrives to the political upheaval and glittering international society of Shanghai in the 1920s. Journeying up the Yangtze with her new husband, the ship’s captain, Annie revels in the sense of adventure but when her husband sends her back to Shanghai, her freedom is quickly curtailed.

Against her will, Annie finds herself living alone in the International Settlement, increasingly suffocated by the judgemental Club ladies and their exclusive social scene: one even more restrictive than that she came from. Sick of salacious gossip and foreign condescension, and desperate to shake off the restrictions of her position in the world, Annie is slowly drawn into the bustling life and otherness of the real Shanghai and begins to see the world from the perspective of the local people, including the servants who work at her husband’s Club.

But this world is far more complex and dangerous than the curious Annie understands and, unknowingly, she becomes caught in a web of intrigue and conspiracy as well as a passionate forbidden love affair she could not have predicted: one with far–reaching consequences…

‘Emma’s book is lyrical and beautiful…she has written a love story as dangerous and exotic as the worlds she describes.’ Caroline Overington, author of The Lucky One and The One Who Got Away