This wonderful story actually becomes tedious because of a lengthy summary of predictable events until Rachel gets back to Africa. But why did her editor let the final third slide? After the climax, the last section of the book is a very long denoument. She tries so hard to do what is right! I also agree with a comment by my friend Kristine that she appreciated the book's references to Dickens because this tale itself is also quite "dickensian."Īll this praise applies to the first two thirds of the book. The book is taut with suspense, the heroine engaging and morally sensitive, and her dilemma is real for a child.
I love the way she uses imagery to tie landscape and characters together-wonderful. I kept thinking "this is a book I wish I could write!" Whelan's prose is lovely and her imagery is precise and perfect. It received the National Book Award, and I can see why. AudioFile called the story "solid" and Bianca Amato's narration "stellar" However, Most people can agree that the book is pretty bad.I absolutely loved the first two thirds of this book. The audiobook recording of Listening for Lions received an Audie Award as well as AudioFile magazine's Earphones Award.
There is an epilogue at the end of the novel, in which Rachel becomes his adopted daughter and attends school, later returning to her father's hospital as a doctor. Rachel comes within the day, and he returns her to her grandfather, telling him the truth, which they have already suspected. Grumbloch, gives Rachel his address and tells her to come in an emergency. In scorn of his son, the grandfather sends them away, but his trusty solicitor, Mr. Just as things begin to get better, the Pritchards' unveil their new plot, to take the grandfather's property when he dies. Rachel considers telling people of the Pritchards' lies on the ship, but she soon arrives in England and begins to develop a close relationship with her "grandfather", who, like her, is very fond of birds. They persuade the reluctant Rachel to impersonate their daughter, sending her in Valerie's place to visit her dying grandfather in England, on the pretext that it will save his life. After Rachel's father dies and it looks as if the hospital will be closed, Rachel is taken in by the Pritchards. The Pritchards, arrogant planters who live nearby, bring their daughter Valerie to the hospital, but it is too late to save her. Many die from the sickness, including her mother. Life goes haywire as an influenza epidemic strikes when Rachel is 13, in 1919. Her father is a doctor and her mother a teacher. Rachel Sheridan is the only child of British missionaries working among the Kikuyu and Masai tribes of British East Africa (present-day Kenya).
Set in 1919, it concerns an orphaned girl who becomes involved in an inheritance swindle. Listening for Lions is a children's novel by Gloria Whelan, first published in 2005.
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