![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents are strict but loving and instill her with a deep sense of responsibility and connectedness, perhaps because they were both orphans raised in England and have the mission to thank for their educations and jobs. Her descriptions of her home, the land and the native community she is part of illuminate her love of Africa and its people. At the start of the novel Rachel is living in Kenya with her missionary parents, a doctor and teacher, who are ministering to the Kikuyu and Masai tribes. The story begins in 1919 and is is told in the first person by the sensitive and thoughtful thirteen year old, Rachel Sheridan. With this book, Whelan combines two of my favorite plot elements: an orphaned child and a historical setting. ![]() Setting her stories all over the world, Whelan is a master at crafting a compelling story of a young woman's will to control her own fate and Listening for Lions is no exception. When her new life as a wife, far from her family turns out to be worse than she could have imagined she takes her future into her own hands. Gloria Whelan, winner of the National Book Award in 2000 for Homeless Bird, her story of Koly, an Indian girl who faces an arranged marriage at age thirteen. ![]()
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