The C-5 Galaxy History (Hardcover)

from mkboylan

This is the story of a child whose British parents were murdered, leaving her to be raised  in a Sufi mosque in Morocco, then flee to Ethiopia and then to England.  It is a slow moving and wonderful reading experience to join this unusual journey to adulthood.  The writing is excellent so I felt ...

from lit_chick

Gibb is immensely readable. I'm delighted to have discovered another notable Canadian writer. "He must have envisioned a time when I would have to make my way in the wider world; the books he presented offered lessons about war and morality and disease and love and betrayal and, perhaps most impo...

from karenmerguerian

The author draws a fascinating picture of life in Ethiopia and in London from the point of view of a Western (Irish and English) Muslim woman brought up in Morocco, and living on the margin in both cultures. She must reconcile herself as a child to life in Ethiopia and as an adult to life in Lond...

from TerriBooks

A novel about an English girl, Lilly, who ended up being raised and educated as a Muslim when her nomadic, rootless parents were accidentally killed in North Africa. As a teenager, Lilly moves to Ethiopia, essentially on her own. The story takes us through the days of unrest and change in Ethiopi...

from Smits

Lilly,is a English born devote Muslim woman raised in Ethiopia by a Quran specialist after her hippie parents die. She embraces that life although she is always a foreigner . She winds up in Harar living with Muslim woman and embraces their traditions living by the word of the Quran until she fal...