Sunyi Dean for The Girl with a Thousand Faces

Join us to discover Sunyi Dean's fantasticly haunting, dark urban fantasy set in historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive.'Bound to be an immediate classic' - HANNAH KANER'Will tear out your heart and heal it in the same breath' - ELIZA CHAN'Richly imagined and transportive' - OLIVIE BLAKE'A haunting story of loneliness, love and loss' - GARETH BROWN_Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past.

After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians.

Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.__But the past she can't remember won't let her go.

An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon's waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district.

Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy - and her forgotten childhood.__As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making._SUNYI DEAN is the _Sunday Times_ bestselling author of _The Book Eaters_.

Originally born in Texas and raised in Hong Kong, she now resides in a Yorkshire cottage full of music and books.

Her most recent novel, _The Girl with a Thousand Faces_, was inspired by her upbringing: her old high school was once a mission house on the edge of the original Walled City of Kowloon, and her grandparents survived the Japanese occupation during World War II.