Stephanie Keating Books

In the first years of Kenyan independence, three young women return to the East African highlands where they shared a carefree childhood. Hannah is struggling to preserve her heritage at Langani Farm, where a series of unexplained and violent attacks threaten her security and recent marriage. Sarah is studying elephant behavior in an area made dangerous by armed poachers, using her work as a salve for the death of her childhood sweetheart. Camilla, the international fashion icon, abandons her career in London and is drawn back to Kenya by her love for a charismatic hunter and safari guide. But there is a secret that hangs over Langani, overshadowing their efforts to establish themselves in the volatile circumstances of a new African nation. With the help of an ambitious Indian journalist, the three girls gradually uncover the truth about the murder of Sarah's fiance, and the continuing attacks on the farm and on their lives. The passions and hardships experienced by these unforgettable heroines, united again in their friendship and their love for the country of their childhood, make a magnificent, epic novel. This superb sequel to Blood Sisters confronts catastrophic loss and delirious happiness, savagery and degradation, limitless beauty, soaring hope, and redemption.

During their childhood years in the Kenya Highlands of the 1950s, three girls from vastly different backgrounds become blood sisters, promising that nothing will ever destroy the bond between them. But as they grow up love rivalries, broken promises and the tensions and violence of a newly independent Kenya threaten to tear their childhood dreams apart.

'And to my daughter in France, I bequeath the remainder of my Estate'These words, read from the will of Irish academic Richard Kirwan, come as a complete surprise to his grieving family. schovat popis

‘En aan mijn dochter in Frankrijk laat ik de rest van mijn nalatenschap na...’ Met deze woorden eindigt het testament van Richard Kirwan, tot verbijstering van zijn Ierse gezin. Ook het leven van zijn dochter in Frankrijk, Solange de Valnay, wordt door Kirwans laatste wil in de war geschopt. Is de man die ze haar hele leven vader heeft genoemd dan niet haar vader? Eleanor, de Ierse dochter, en Solange gaan op zoek naar het verleden van hun vader. De enigen die weten wat er precies is voorgevallen, lijken de excentrieke grootmoeder van Solange en de gekwelde oom van Eleanor. Hun zoektocht brengt de twee halfzussen op het spoor van dramatische gebeurtenissen in het bezette Parijs ten tijde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, waar vier gezinnen verbonden worden door hun verzet tegen de Duitsers bezetter. In deze periode vol verzet, heldendaden en passie bloeit ook een onmogelijke maar onweerstaanbare liefde op.