![]() After Rachel's father dies and it looks as if the hospital will be closed, Rachel is taken in by the Pritchards. The Pritchards, arrogant and extremely rich people who live nearby, bring their daughter Valerie to the hospital, but it is too late to save her. ![]() ![]() Many die from the sickness, including her mother and father. Life goes haywire as an influenza epidemic strikes when Rachel is 13, in 1919. Her father is a doctor and her mother a teacher. Rachel Sheridan is the only child of British missionaries working among the Kikuyu and Masai tribes of British East Africa (present-day Kenya). Set in 1919, it concerns an orphaned girl who becomes involved in an inheritance swindle. ![]() Listening for Lions is a children's novel by Gloria Whelan, first published in 2005. ![]()
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