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A female family history, it is the difficult survival of women in different eras that has shaped our history. A novel about love, lost innocence and struggle, a celebration of the lives of Maltese women, revealing their resilience and close family bonds. The first Maltese novel introduced to China, covering its different historical stages: colonization, war and immigration boom. A full demonstration of girl's power, an excellent example of girls helping girls. This is a story about a grandmother's grandmother-a female family history. Five generations of women from a Maltese family appear one after another, spanning a century and taking place in Malta, New York, Sydney and Melbourne. They make a living in troubled times, raise children on their own, are teased again and again by fate, fight against the ruthless world, and struggle with their own desires. The dessert shop is not only a place for them to struggle, but also a place to protect everyone. Gudita, Licia, Frances, Claire, and Daphne, they encountered completely different hardships in different eras and countries, but the unique qualities of women allowed them to endure, adapt, survive, and care for each other. In the end, the youngest girl returned to Malta and continued the story where it had been interrupted. There were Malta's unique hooded cloak "Faldetta", the public oven "Shava", the hammock cradle "Benena", the black monster "Baba"...