Katherine Scholes, the bestselling Australian author of The Hunter’s Wife and The Stone Angel, returns to Africa in this moving and heart-warming novel.
In Lioness, Angel Kelly and her mother are travelling by camel across the dusty plains of northern Tanzania when disaster strikes and they face a struggle between life and death. Meanwhile, Australian medical researcher Emma Lindberg arrives at a nearby field station, hoping to banish a grief she's carried since childhood. Their worlds collide when human footprints are found in the desert, among those of a lioness and her cubs.
Caught up in a search for a missing person, Emma makes an extraordinary discovery deep into the African wilderness.

Quote:
"This most moving book, whose every breath is a love-song for Africa and her people, is a faultlessly woven cloth." – Le Monde French newspaper on The Rain Queen

Biography:
Katherine Scholes was born in Tanzania, East Africa, the daughter of a missionary doctor and an artist. She has fond memories of travelling with her parents and three siblings on long safaris to remote areas where her father operated a clinic from his Land Rover. When she was ten, the family left Tanzania, moving first to England and then settling permanently in Australia.