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Identity crisis

GHOST GIRL, BANANA, by Wiz Wharton (Hodder & Stoughton, $37.99)

“It is complicated, isn’t it? … Explaining the past to people. It’s like some stranger looking through your photo album.”

For British-born Lily Miller, the past has always been out of reach: in Hong Kong, the city of her late mother’s birth. But it’s London, it’s 1997, and

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