Readers’ Area

Welcome to the Peach Blossom Spring Readers’ Area. Here you’ll find links, videos, and other delights meant to provide extra context for the book. As we get closer to publication, I’ll be talking about the inspiration for the novel, sharing some of the books and objects that influenced the writing, and introducing the characters.

For book clubs, here are a few questions we came up with that might spark discussions.

I also had the great fortune of Peach Blossom Spring being in a Tandem Collective Readalong. Together with some input from me and my publishers, Tandem developed an incredible set of discussion questions, resources, and prompts for the book. You can access the archived Peach Blossom Spring Readalong materials here. (Note: the page numbers correspond to the UK edition which might vary slightly from other editions.)

What's Peach Blossom Spring about?

The story behind the story

About Chinese hand scrolls

Folk Tales Companion Guide

Click to download the folk tales companion guide.

Some books that inspired my writing

A photo of my father that inspired me

Introducing the characters - Overview

Song of the Fishermen - a song loved by the characters in the book (and my dad)

Introducing the characters - Meilin

Introducing the characters - Renshu/Henry

Introducing the characters - Longwei

Introducing the characters - Lily