Peking Picnic - Capuchin Classics Author:Ann Bridge An evocative journey into 1930s China deftly weaves together themes of personal relationships and global events Laura Leroy inhabits the two realms of her Oxford past and Peking present. Into her current world of exotic beauty and brutality comes Vinstead, a professor from Cambridge and a reminder of all she has left behind. A picnic part... more »y leaves for the hills near Peking, and tensions rise as Laura cautiously responds to Vinstead's attraction and their fragile world comes under threat.« less