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Title: Drums in the Night Air
Author: Veronica Cecil
Narrator: Imogen Church
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-04-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Summary:
Veronica Cecil was 25 years old when her husband was offered a job at a large multi-national company in the Congo. Filled with enthusiasm for their new life, the couple and their 11-month-old son set off for an African adventure. Very soon, however, Veronica began to realise that life in the Congo was not what she had imagined. Food shortages were an everyday occurrence; she felt like an outsider at the club in Léopoldville, which only the Belgians and other expats frequented; and flickers of violence were starting to erupt everywhere.
Six months later Veronica and her family were sent to Elizabetha, a remote palm oil plantation on the banks of the Congo River. But even here paradise didnt last. Civil war broke out, and the rebels captured the neighbouring town of Stanleyville and took all the whites hostage.
Despite the fact that Veronica was on the verge of giving birth, the situation was so dangerous that she and her toddler had to be evacuated. Leaving her husband and all their possessions behind, she and her son began on a two-day journey through the jungle. But on the plane back to Leopoldville, the first labour pains began....
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