Book description
In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of Rhodesia's struggle to become
Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to a
wild, beautiful farm on the banks of a slow-flowing river. The house was
the scene of a horrific guerrilla attack, and settling there changes
Lauren's life irrevocably.
RAINBOW'S END captures the overwhelming beauty and extraordinary danger
of life in the African bush. Lauren's childhood reads like a girl's own
adventure story as, at the height of the war, she rides through the
wilderness on her horse, Morning Star, encountering lions, crocodiles,
vicious ostriches, and mad cows. Yet the greatest threat is the ruthless
guerrillas who prowl the land, making each day more dangerous, vivid,
and prized than the last. Lauren St John was born in Gatooma,
Rhodesia, now Kadoma, Zimbabwe. At 11, she and her family moved to
Rainbow's End farm and game reserve, the subject of her acclaimed
memoir, and she grew up surrounded by animals, including eight horses,
two warthogs and a pet giraffe. After nearly a decade as golf
correspondent to The Sunday Times, followed by a sojourn in the US,
riding the tour buses of alt. country stars like Emmylou Harris, Steve
Earle and the Dixie Chicks, she wrote the bestselling 'White Giraffe'
series. 'Dead Man's Cove', the first in her new mystery series about
11-year-old detective, Laura Marlin, won the 2011 Blue Peter Favourite
Story and Book of the Year Awards.
