By Its Cover is a series of posts wherein I read a book based solely on my love of the cover. No reading the jacket, no checking reviews! In May of 1952 Claire Pendleton arrives in Hong Kong with her husband of a few months. He is an engineer assigned to oversee the building of the Tai Lam Cheung reservoir. Claire doesn’t particularly love her husband. While acknowledging that he is a good man, she married him to escape a dull life. To fill her days, Claire becomes a piano teacher for Locket, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy Chinese couple, Victor…
