The Beautiful Mother
$24.47
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2021
Summary
A Season of Motherhood: Love, Loss, and Belonging in Tanzania
‘You are her mother at this moment. The future is another time.’
In the heart of Tanzania, Essie Lawrence finds her life irrevocably altered. Living with her husband at an archaeological camp, a chance encounter leads her to make an impulsive vow. She returns to the camp with a baby girl in her arms, entrusted to care for her until the rains arrive, and then… let her go.
The arrival of the child disrupts t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761045103 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761045105 |
| Author: | Katherine Scholes |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Katherine Scholes
Katherine Scholes is an international bestselling author with over two million books sold. She was born in Tanzania and six of her adult novels are set there, during the Independence era of the 1960s. She was the first artist to travel to Antarctica as a guest of the Australian Antarctic Division. Her novel she wrote afterwards won a New South Wales State Literary Award. The Stone Angel, set in east coast Tasmania, was longlisted in the International Dublin Literary Awards. Her forthcoming novel, One Night at Silver Lake (2026), brings together her two homelands, Tanzania and Tasmania. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and includes children’s fiction and non-fiction as well as novels for adults. She has also had a career as a filmmaker.
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