Katherine Scholes

An unforgettable story filled with drama, conflict and deep emotion. You can't go back and change the past. All you have left is the future. Melbourne secretary Anna Emerson's life is turned upside down when a stranger hands her a plane ticket to the Congo. The newly independent country is in turmoil, Simba rebels are on the move, but the...

The breathtaking new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Rain Queen and Congo Dawn. 'You are her mother at this moment. The future is another time.' In a remote corner of Tanzania, Essie Lawrence lives with her husband in an archaeologist's camp. One morning a chance encounter with two strangers sees her making a rash promise. When she...

The Rain Queen by Katherine Scholes tells the story of Kate Carrington, who has severed all connections with Africa, the land of her birth. Her past, along with memories of her missionary parents, is buried, with the final remnants securely locked away in the attic. Kate's meticulously crafted world is disrupted when a mysterious woman, Annah Mason, moves in next...

Set between Tanzania and Tasmania, this is a deeply moving novel about family and belonging, by the acclaimed bestselling author of The Rain Queen and The Beautiful Mother. Once the boundaries of normality are broken, anything can happen ... In 1960s Tanzania, Sara Brayden spends years longing for a baby, while struggling in her conventional role as a mine manager's...