The Song of the Rainbird

by Barbara Whitnell

Book Overview

After the death of her fiance, Kate Carswell, a young English schoolteacher forges a new life for herself amid the color-conscious society of Kenya's pioneer country This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340371897
• ISBN13: 9780340371893
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent novel of life in Kenya in the early days

The story follows three young English women who meet on a ship bound for Kenya around the turn of the last century. It follows their lives, their loves, their families and their struggles to make a life in Africa. The main story centers around Kate, who arrives in Nairobi to discover that her fiancee has been killed. Not wanting to go back to her disapproving father, she decides to stay and persue her love of teaching - both the whites and the blacks. I felt that the book showed the feelings of the Europeans and native Africans very fairly. The story ends in the 1950's, when the threat of the Mau, Mau became recognized. It is a well written and researched book and I enjoyed it very much. Ths is the first book I have read of Barbara Whitnell's and I am ordering more of her books today.