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Leopard at the door / Jennifer McVeigh.

Title
Leopard at the door / Jennifer McVeigh.
Author
McVeigh, Jennifer
Publication
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2017]

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Description
392 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"Set in Kenya against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love. 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. Her father's new companion--a strange, intolerant woman--has taken over the household. The political climate in the country grows more unsettled by the day and is approaching the boiling point. And looming over them all is the threat of the Mau Mau, a secret society intent on uniting the native Kenyans and overthrowing the whites. As Rachel struggles to find her place in her home and her country, she initiates a covert relationship, one that will demand from her a gross act of betrayal. One man knows her secret, and he has made it clear how she can buy his silence. But she knows something of her own, something she has never told anyone. And her knowledge brings her power"--
Subject
  • Mau Mau Emergency (Kenya : 1952-1960)
  • 1952-1960
  • British > Kenya > Fiction
  • FICTION / Historical
  • FICTION / Literary
  • FICTION / Coming of Age
  • Bildungsromans
  • British
  • Kenya > History > Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 > Fiction
  • Kenya
Genre/Form
  • Historical fiction
  • Bildungsromans
  • Fiction
  • History
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780399158254
  • 0399158251
LCCN
^^2016030856
OCLC
  • 956775000
  • SCSB-10921417
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library