The Leopard At The Door

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The leopard at the door. 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. This is a book that will steal your heart. 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. It is a wonderful stunning heart wrenching tale of love danger and self discovery.

Leopard at the door expertly transports its reader to a richly depicted world that is fraught both politically and personally. 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 narrates two different struggles through the perspective of rachel the daughter of a settler in kenya some years after ww2. 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. 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. Danger constantly hums around rachel fullsmith as she navigates the complex conflicting desires of men and women native kenyans and white colonists. The novel s main character rachel fullsmith returns to her father s farm in kenya after six years of absence forced.