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Motohuma the Firehead is the story of a white child growing up in a black country (Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe), as it goes through traumatic changes and a savage bush war. Three love stories across two generations are intertwined, but perhaps the greatest love story of all is the one the author tells about the country she's lost. Poppet, the heroine, knows there is a dark secret about her birth, but she never suspects the truth! She dreams of a house fire, and lives with unexplained scars on her body. Her real name is never used, and she does not look like anyone else in her family. Something happened to her long ago, in the years before her memory was formed, but nobody on the remote farm where she lives will tell her what it was. The same secret literally drives her father to drink, but she won't share what he knows with her. Poppet's mother is dead; killed in a terrorist attack on the farm, her brother is confused, and the farm workers are determined to mind their own business. Poppet sets out to uncover the secret, beginning a journey that takes her to London, and brings her back to her African home where the truth and her worst fears lie. She has to deal with murder, rape, snakes, crocodiles and depression, and overcome them all before she finally arrives at the end of the secret. This is a romantic coming-of-age story, set in a wild and dangerous, but beautiful country. Poppet is a courageous, flame-haired heroine with a lot to learn, not least how to love the man who loves her so passionately. 'Every Paradise has its Serpent, and every Eden its exiles.' "Adrian swore, 'I will never leave Africa.I was born here and I love Africa.' The reply came: 'It doesn't matter how much you love Africa if Africa does not love you." I hope you enjoy it! It was written from my soul. Jennifer Munro "This book will make you laugh and make you cry. If it doesn't touch your heart, you haven't got one." "This book was absolutely beautiful. It is an engaging book that is impossible to put down from start to finish. You really come to care about Poppet. This book was truly a great find! " "Quite simply put; I loved this book! It's beautifully written, the descriptions bring the Africa I remember to life, the characters are people that feel familiar, people that you can connect with and it's definitely a page turner.I would definitely recommend this book!" "The best book I have read this year! The Characters are vivid and alive. The scenery is so real. If I hadn't read the Authors web site, I would have thought the story was autobiographical - it is so life like."
About the Author: BIOGRAPHY - JENNIFER MUNRO www.motohumathefirehead.com I was born in the tiny hamlet of Winteringham, Lincolnshire UK, during the fifties. I grew up surrounded by love, fluffy bunnies, golden retrievers and ponies. My extended family were all close; in neighbouring villages, and life was very gentle and safe. Then my father, who longed for freedom from the restrictions of English life, moved us to South Africa in the sixties. Finding that not quite wild enough for his taste, he moved us to Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe in the early seventies, at the beginning of the bush war. I married too young, and went farming during the war.I must have inherited that wild streak! My two beautiful daughters were born and, after some very traumatic events, my husband and I moved our young family to South Africa. From one jungle to another! I started an advertising agency, and made myself Creative Director; writing for television, adverts, brochures and websites. I was thrilled to have some of my creative stories published in a woman's magazine, Fair Lady.I guess, in the end I grew tired of all the excitement and longed for the safety of my island home. I moved back to Britain in the late nineties, and started a marketing agency in Surrey, that I then gave to my eldest daughter, to allow me to concentrate on my first love: writing. Motohuma the Firehead is my second complete novel, and I am about one third of the way through my third. All that wildness and freedom gave me some wonderful material for my books. A lifetime of stories at my fingertips! I'm a lot quieter now. I have a cat and an apartment - no tangled wilderness to tame...but inside me, like a witchdoctor's cauldron, all the mad stories of Africa brew and bubble, and flow out of these fingers onto the keyboard for my own, and my readers' pleasure.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781481974370
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Depth: 20
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1481974378
  • Publisher Date: 08 Aug 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 404
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 589 gr

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