THE RAIN QUEEN

Easter, 1974
On a remote medical mission in Tanzania, Dr Michael Carrington and his wife Sarah are savagely murdered. A white woman visiting the couple that night inexplicably survives the brutal attack, and a bloodstained fetish found with the bodies is adorned with locks of her long red hair.
The Carringtons' last guest is Annah Mason. Once an idealistic missionary nurse, she is now an outsider. Europeans view her with suspicion. But the Africans know her as a gifted healer, a friend of witches - and the great love of Mtemi, chief of the Waganga. They call her the Rain Queen.
Twenty years later, Sarah and Michael's daughter is living in Melbourne. Kate has buried her childhood grief and no longer yearns to know what really happened to her parents on that terrible night. But then she meets her new neighbor - an eccentric old woman who cooks over a fire in the garden and shoots at snakes.
It soon becomes clear that Kate is not the only one with an African past. The Rain Queen has crossed the world to find her - to tell her a story that will finally set her free...

'Utterly bewitching' THE INDEPENDENT (France)

'A magnificent portrait of a passionate woman, a superb romantic saga. The Rain Queen takes us into the spectacular landscape of Africa, to discover an unknown and magical world.' ELLE