Blood Sisters
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Author | Barbara Keating & Stephanie Keating |
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Illustrator | |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Harvill Press |
Publication date | 6 October 2005 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 608 pp |
ISBN | 1-84343-275-7 Search this book on ![]() |
OCLC | 62760061 |
Followed by | A Durable Fire |
Blood Sisters is a 2005 book by Barbara and Stephanie Keating. The book concerns the life stories of three girls: the Irish Sarah Mackay, an Afrikaner Hanna Van der Beer and British Camilla Broughton Smith. The book follows their journey from being brought up in Kenya, until their lives diverge and their hopes and dreams are destroyed, and their bond almost with it.
It is the first volume of the Langani Trilogy, followed by A Durable Fire (2007, ISBN 978-0099501695 Search this book on .)[1] and In Borrowed Light (2011, ISBN 978-0099520634 Search this book on
.). It has been published in German as Himmel über Langani : eine Liebe in Afrika (2012, ISBN 9783863650582 Search this book on
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RTE's reviewer described it as "A fat, juicy, escapist read" which "captures the intoxicating beauty of Kenya and the danger that pulls all three girls back",[3] while a reviewer in the South African Independent Online said "Sentimental nonsense. Stay away."[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ Holmes, Rachel (2 December 2006). "From Happy Valley to vale of tears". The Times. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ↑ "Catalogue record for "Himmel ..."". Worldcat. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ↑ McCarthy, Mary (4 January 2006). "Blood Sisters by Barbara and Stephanie Keating". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ↑ "Blood Sisters - Barbara and Stephanie Keating". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
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