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Listening for Lions Reprint edition
Gloria Whelan
Listening for Lions Reprint edition
Gloria Whelan
Historical fiction with a wicked twist.
Listening for Lions is a breathtaking story of tragedy, deception, and triumph against all odds. National Book Award?winning author Gloria Whelan sets this richly historical coming?of?age adventure in British East Africa in the year 1918.
This irresistible novel entangles an orphaned girl in a deceit filled plot. Young Rachel Sheridan is made to leave her beloved Africa for England, where she must pose as the deceased daughter of a nefarious couple in an effort to gain them an enormous inheritance. Her irrepressible spirit and extraordinary wit turn her from victim to heroine in a surprising and empowering tale of a remarkable young woman.
208 pages
Médias | Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé) |
Validé | 10 octobre 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9780060581763 |
Éditeurs | HarperCollins |
Pages | 208 |
Dimensions | 192 × 129 × 14 mm · 142 g |
Langue et grammaire | English |
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