Listening for Lions

Review By Nathan:

Listening for Lions is a book about Rachel Sheridan who lives with her missionary parents in what is now Kenya.  Then the flu comes to British East Africa.  Her parents run a hospital so they are exposed and soon die.  She is adopted by her neighbors, the Pritchards, whose daughter, Valerie, just died from the flu.  She is forced to assume their daughter's identity for them to possibly receive an inheritance from Mr. Pritchard's father.  She is soon made to travel to England away from her beloved Africa.  Eventually she confesses to her "Grandfather" who she really is.  He is not mad at her, in fact, he decides to adopt her and pay for her education.  But soon,  grandfather dies.  Rachel then goes off to medical school and becomes a doctor.  She is eventually able to return to Africa to rebuild her parents' mission station and hospital.   

Bellow is a map of British East Africa and the surrounding area in the horn of Africa.