away from you -

Melanie Fin

Penguin Books

2004

217 páginas

7h 14m

ISBN-10: 0141015349

When Helen's daughter Ellie returns to her childhood home in Kenya on her fahter's death after twenty-five years away, it means facing the past. Her upbringing in colonial Africa - stiff wkiskies, keeping up appearances and English gardens amidst the African Bush - was marked by a violent father she didn'treally know. Yet Elli is determined to find out the truth about her family ghosts - whats was her father's dark secret, and will the truth family free her from the past?
Set in the 1960s and today, this is wonderfully atmospheric novel abou husbands and wives, fathers and daughters - and another powerful character: a changing Africa.