The Leopard At The Door

Kate furnivall praises leopard at the door.

The leopard at the door.

Leopard at the door by jennifer mcveigh release date. After six years in england rachel has returned to kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood but the beloved home she d longed for is much changed. Leopard at the door narrates two different struggles through the perspective of rachel the daughter of a settler in kenya some years after ww2. Danger constantly hums around rachel fullsmith as she navigates the complex conflicting desires of men and women native kenyans and white colonists.

About leopard at the door. It is a wonderful stunning heart wrenching tale of love danger and self discovery. Jennifer mcveigh s descriptions of life in kenya are electric in intensity and open up the world of africa in vivid detail in a way that totally beguiled me. In leopard at the door mcveigh brings us to kenya in the 1950s a time of social unrest under the domination of the british empire and the spark of a much feared revolution set forth by a rebel group known as the mau mau.

And the second one is rachel s own attempt to return to the life she lived as a child before she was taken away. 3 2017 during the waning years of the british empire a young woman returns to her father s kenyan farm after boarding school in england only to find home is no longer the safe happy place she recalls. Set in kenya in the 1950s against the fading backdrop of the british empire a story of self discovery betrayal and an impossible love from the author of the fever tree. Leopard at the door expertly transports its reader to a richly depicted world that is fraught both politically and personally.