My Mother's Lovers

by Christopher Hope

Book Overview

The author of Serenity House and Krugers Alp, winner of the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, returns with a lyrical and taut novel about the past 50 years of white presence in South Africa, as seen through the eyes of Kathleen Healey, a superbly authentic female character.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080211850X
• ISBN13: 9780802118509
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Bold, dramatic, and colorful, My Mother's Lovers is a high-spirited, adventurous and emotionally mov

Award-winning author Christopher Hope presents My Mother's Lovers, a novel about the connection between mother and son set in twentieth-century sub-Saharan Africa. Told from the son's point of view, My Mother's Lovers chronicles the vivacious life of Kathleen Healy, aviator, big-game hunter, knitter, and connoisseur of all things African. Her loves were many and carefree; when illness brought her to her deathbed, she instructed her son to carry out her final wishes. The tasks he was entrusted with included delivering firearms to a former apartheid enforcer, a wig to a Liberian boy soldier, and knitting needles to the Rain Queen. Yet when he meets Cindy September, he must confront once and for all what it means to love another human being. Bold, dramatic, and colorful, My Mother's Lovers is a high-spirited, adventurous and emotionally moving read.