The Leopard At The Door

The first one is the mau mau revolution that aims to get rid of the english in kenya.

The leopard at the door.

The novel s main character rachel fullsmith returns to her father s farm in kenya after six years of absence forced. Leopard at the door by jennifer mcveigh release date. 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.

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. 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.

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. And the second one is rachel s own attempt to return to the life she lived as a child before she was taken away. About leopard at the door. 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.