December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
5h 27m
English

I enjoy sport, and many years ago I was looking forward to playing in an Easter hockey festival. A few days before the weekend I started getting pains in my stomach. The pain worsened and I ended up in hospital with appendicitis. After the operation, and during the recovery phase, I got to know a fellow patient, Stanley Burns. He shared my passion for books and we became friends. One day in the hospital he was telling me about a time in his life when he traded jade in 1930s China. His story included an adventure with Somerset Maugham when he had appendicitis on the Yangtze River! I asked him: ‘How were you, a Plymouth lad in your twenties and ...
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