Book description
Lingmere Zoo is about to close and its twin lionesses, Lorna and
Ellen, will be put down unless a new home can be found for them. So
when a sanctuary in Africa offers to take the animals, Lorna and Ellen
begin the long journey together. But Lorna wants her freedom and
dramatically escapes ot the English countryside leaving Ellen to face
an unknown fate, alone.
Can the lionesses survive without each other in their frightening
and confusing new worlds? And will they ever meet again?
Colin Dann won the Arts Council National Award for Children's
Literature for his first novel, The Animals of Farthing Wood.
