The Leopard At The Door

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The leopard at the door.

Leopard at the door expertly transports its reader to a richly depicted world that is fraught both politically and personally. And the second one is rachel s own attempt to return to the life she lived as a child before she was taken away. 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. The novel s main character rachel fullsmith returns to her father s farm in kenya after six years of absence forced.

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. Kate furnivall praises leopard at the door. The first one is the mau mau revolution that aims to get rid of the english in kenya. Leopard at the door narrates two different struggles through the perspective of rachel the daughter of a settler in kenya some years after ww2.

Leopard at the door by jennifer mcveigh release date. It is a wonderful stunning heart wrenching tale of love danger and self discovery. Danger constantly hums around rachel fullsmith as she navigates the complex conflicting desires of men and women native kenyans and white colonists. 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.