Girl Ran Away
A Story from Africa
Published on 1. April 2014
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-61457-100-1 (ISBN)
Description
Elizabeth Jenkins, 17, raised on a Congo mission station, is under intense pressure to marry the station doctor, twenty years her senior. Hours before the wedding, Elizabeth flees. She runs toward the wider world beyond the station. She reaches Nairobi, a place of danger for a single woman without a protecting clan. Can she survive? This novel chronicles the journey of Liz across two continents, in and out of the arms of three lovers, to find a life she can call her own.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington state
United States
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-61457-100-1 (9781614571001)
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Fred Hunter served as The Christian Science Monitor's Africa correspondent and as a USIS foreign service officer in Belgium and the Congo. A playwright / screenwriter, Hunter's The Hemingway Play was given a staged reading at the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, presented at Harvard University's Loeb Drama Center and produced by PBS's Hollywood Television Theater series. Other plays have been performed at the Dallas Theatre Center, ACT in San Francisco and the Ensemble Theater in Santa Barbara. Movies Hunter has written have been produced by PBS, ABC and CBS. Research for his PBS drama Lincoln and the War Within led him to write the historical novel Abe and Molly: The Lincoln Courtship. He's taught Screenwriting at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, at UCSB and at Principia College where he also taught Modern African Literature. The Girl Ran Away is his third novel. A collection of short stories Africa, Africa! drew on his experiences in Belgium and the Congo and as a working journalist, based in Nairobi.