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Hello to the cannibals : a novel

At first, all Lily Austin knows about 19th'century explorer Mary Kingsley is that, 100 years before, she was the first white woman to venture into the heart of Africa. But as Lily begins reading about Mary Kingsley, she becomes more and more fascinated ' and discovers in Mary a kindred spirit. In her own life, Lily feels trapped ' on the one hand, she craves family and intimate connection; on the other hand, she has no healthy or satisfying role models. Consequently, as she nears graduation from the University of Virginia, she finds herself uncertain about what to do with her life. As she researches Mary's life ' she has begun writing a play about her ' Lily comes to witness Mary's incredible bravery and startling originality, qualities that prove inspirational to Lily, whose own bravery is required as she attempts to navigate dysfunctional and destructive relationships with her young husband, her extended family ' and a legacy of abuse dating back to her childhood.

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  • "Hello to the cannibals"@pl

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  • "Pregnant, newly married, and living with her husband's estranged family, Lily Austin writes a play about famed nineteenth-century British explorer Mary Kingsley and finds inspiration in her subject's writings."
  • "At first, all Lily Austin knows about 19th'century explorer Mary Kingsley is that, 100 years before, she was the first white woman to venture into the heart of Africa. But as Lily begins reading about Mary Kingsley, she becomes more and more fascinated ' and discovers in Mary a kindred spirit. In her own life, Lily feels trapped ' on the one hand, she craves family and intimate connection; on the other hand, she has no healthy or satisfying role models. Consequently, as she nears graduation from the University of Virginia, she finds herself uncertain about what to do with her life. As she researches Mary's life ' she has begun writing a play about her ' Lily comes to witness Mary's incredible bravery and startling originality, qualities that prove inspirational to Lily, whose own bravery is required as she attempts to navigate dysfunctional and destructive relationships with her young husband, her extended family ' and a legacy of abuse dating back to her childhood."@en
  • "Récit à travers le temps des destins de Lily Austin et de Mary Kingsley. La jeune Lily écrit une pièce de théâtre inspirée par la vie de Mary, jeune femme ayant décidé d'abandonner l'Angleterre victorienne pour partir en exploration en Afrique de l'Ouest. Mary devient le modèle de Lily qui lui adresse des lettres, tout comme à la fin du 19e siècle, Mary écrivait à un correspondant imaginaire."
  • ""It is almost a hundred years later, on her fourteenth birthday, that Lily Austin first hears the name of Mary Kingsley, the only female face in a book full of male adventurers. That night, as an ice storm rages outside, something awful and unexpected befalls Lily; and this is why, as she matures into a young woman, it is to the writings of Kingsley that she returns again and again for solace and comfort which she finds, especially, in a secret cache of intimate letters Kingsley wrote to an unnamed woman in the distant future." -- Jacket."@en
  • "Pregnant, newly married, and living with her in-laws, Lily Austin writes a play about famed nineteenth-century British explorer Mary Kinglsey and finds inspiration in her subject's writings."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"

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  • "Hello to the cannibals : a novel"@en
  • "Hello to the cannibals : a novel"
  • "Dwa życia, dwie miłości"@pl
  • "Dwa życia, dwie miłości"
  • "Hello to the cannibals"
  • "Hello to the cannibals"@en
  • "Hello to the Cannibals"@en
  • "Hello to the cannibals a novel"
  • "Hello to the cannibals a novel"@en
  • "Petite visite aux cannibales : roman"
  • "Die Kannibalen : Roman"

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