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Blue Desert

Blue Desert

Jeffries, Celia
Dixon, Jennifer M.
Dixon, Jennifer M.

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General FictionHistorical Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798874687526
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: Jan 23 2024
Language: English
2021 IPNE Finalist, Literary Fiction

2021 Women's Book Awards Sarton Finalist, Historical Fiction

Alice George is a headstrong young British woman who finds herself living among the Tuareg, a tribe of nomadic warriors. While the outside world faces the catastrophe of World War I, the Tuareg continue to crisscross the Sahara as a matrilineal society in which the men are veiled, and the women hold property--a world in which anything can happen. It is a world well suited to eighteen-year-old Alice, who discovers a life she could never live in corseted England.

In 1917, Alice returns home to a world completely alien to the one she left in the Sahara. Her silence about that life is finally broken sixty years later when she receives a telegram announcing Abu has died in the desert. Who is Abu? her husband asks. My lover, she replies. Thus, begins a weeklong journey of revelation as Alice lays bare her secrets.

Can Alice face her demons and open her heart more fully to the life she once lived in the Sahara--a life she has hidden from her husband and herself? Blue Desert is a story of exile, family secrets, and the power of love.

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