A01=Robert J. Berens
Africa
Author_Robert J. Berens
bohemian communities
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England
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European expats
fiction
Happy Valley
horse trainers
horse training
Kenya
Kipsigis tribe
literary fiction
romance fiction
stories about expats
stories about immigrants
stories about love
stories set in Africa
unconventional upbringing
Product details
- ISBN 9781681624099
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2001
- Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of nature’s delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string of disastrous relationships.
Beryl forges her own path as a horse trainer, and her uncommon style attracts the eye of the Happy Valley set, a decadent, bohemian community of European expats who also live and love by their own set of rules. But it’s the ruggedly charismatic Denys Finch Hatton who ultimately helps Beryl navigate the uncharted territory of her own heart. The intensity of their love reveals Beryl’s truest self and her fate: to fly.
Set against the majestic landscape of early-twentieth-century Africa, McLain’s powerful tale reveals the extraordinary adventures of a woman before her time, the exhilaration of freedom and its cost, and the tenacity of the human spirit.
