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    The Dhow House
    The Dhow House
    The Dhow House
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    The Dhow House

    Written by Jean McNeil

    Narrated by Kate Hewlett

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    A lushly imagined novel that asks, “When do we ever really know ourselves?”

    When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she arrives at her aunt’s house on the Indian Ocean and is taken into the heart of a family she has never met before. It’s a world of all-night beach parties and constant cocktail receptions, and within its languorous embrace her attraction for her much younger cousin grows.

    But the gilded lives of her aunt Julia’s family and their fellow white Africans on the coast are under threat - Islamist terror attacks are on the rise and Rebecca knows more about this violence than she is prepared to reveal. Will she be able to save her newfound family from the violence that encroaches on their seductive lives? Or, amidst growing unrest, will the true reason for her hasty exit from her posting be unmasked? Rebecca finds herself torn between the family she hardly knows and a past she dares not divulge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW
    Release dateMar 20, 2018
    ISBN9781773051246
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    Jean McNeil

    Jean McNeil is a prolific fiction and non- fiction author whose work has been nominated for and won several major international awards. She is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel with Legend Press, and 12th overall publication was The Dhow House (2016). Follow Jean on Twitter at @ jeanmcneilwrite

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