Barbara Keating Boeken

Fourteen years after independence, the enduring childhood friendship of three women has carried them through times of violence and loss in Kenya, their chosen homeland. However, their inability to have children puts Sarah's relationship with her husband and his family under increasing pressure.

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.

Sarah, Camilla und Hannah sind seit Kindertagen in Kenia beste Freundinnen. Während Sarah als Tierfotografin arbeitet und den Mord an ihrem Verlobten aufklärt, kämpft Hannah um den Erhalt der Familienfarm. Camilla gründet ein Modelabel, doch ein Überfall bringt die Freundinnen in große Gefahr.

Erst mit dem Tod ihres Vaters erfahren Eleanor Kirwan und ihre Geschwister, dass sie eine Halbschwester in Frankreich haben. Der Vertrauensbruch ihres Vaters, der ihnen diesen Teil seines Lebens stets verschwiegen hat, trifft sie tief. Doch noch größer ist Eleanors Wunsch, den Vater zu verstehen. Sie nimmt Kontakt auf zu ihrer Halbschwester Solange, aber die will von ihren neuen Geschwistern nichts wissen. Aber so einfach lässt sich Richard Kirwans Geschichte nicht vergessen, und so erfahren die beiden jungen Frauen, Eleanor und Solange, von einer unmöglichen wie unwiderstehlichen Liebe, die auch der Krieg nicht zerstören konnte.