An absorbing romance with the magical background of West Africa. Flowers, spicy smells, a black ceiling painted with stars, blue mists in the forest, the thick, warm mysterious river and bright parakeets shrieking among the trees. To all this Tessa flies out from England to attend her cousin... read more
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