August Adventures: Day Eight
After a brief intermission, we’re back to our August adventures! Today’s treat? Deanna Raybourn’s A Spear of Summer Grass
You may have heard about this book here on my website a time or two before….
Here’s Deanna:
The very last thing Delilah Drummond expects when she goes to Africa is a proper adventure. Most travelers journey there on safari, but Delilah is banished abroad by a family that has weathered one too many of her scandals. She’s a flapper with a sharp black bob and a slash of scarlet lipstick, a party girl with a penchant for gin and men other women have left lying around unattended. She is a woman who has seen it all and done most of it.
But nothing prepares her for Africa. Exiled to her father’s savanna manor house, Delilah finds to her dismay that Fairlight is the crumbling, sun-bleached skeleton of a faded African dream, a world where dissolute expats are bolstered by gin and jazz, cigarettes and safaris.
And against the frivolity of the expat community, Ryder White stands in sharp contrast. He is her guide to Africa and all its dangers and thrills—and he is more than a match for the complex beauty of this new land she comes to love. For Delilah, letting down her guard just might be the greatest adventure of them all…
To enter today’s giveaway, please leave a comment on Deanna’s blog.
Keep up with the latest adventures and chances to win through any of the authors:
Alison Atlee, The Typewriter Girl
Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye
T.J. Brown, Summerset Abbey: Spring Awakening
Sarah Jio, The Last Camellia
Susanna Kearsley, The Firebird
Katherine Keenum, Where the Light Falls
Stephanie Lehmann, Astor Place Vintage
Kate Noble, Let it be Me
Deanna Raybourn, A Spear of Summer Grass
Lauren Willig, The Ashford Affair
The adventures continue tomorrow with Stephanie Lehman’s Astor Place Vintage