Publisher: Self-Published
Date of Publication: March 31, 2017
The Rainwater Secret is a deeply moving, historical fiction novel about a woman who travels
to Africa to teach the leper children who were banished from their villages. Single and feeling there is nothing left for her in small-town England, Anna embarks on an adventure as a volunteer teacher with the Medical Missionaries of Mary. Life as Anna has known it is forever changed as she learns the culture that would banish its sick, disfigured, and crippled to the bush. Babies are left to die on roadsides, children are chased away to live by whatever means they can find. The aged are abandoned.
Anna’s daily life is an adventure as she travels from one village to another across a hostile land with few passable roads, rickety bridges threatening to fall apart and casting occupants on the jagged rocks far below, and weather that turns a calm river into a roiling death trap. In spite of the trials, Anna also manages to find love and family in this godforsaken land.
Six Interesting Tidbits about Lily Murphy
(Anna Goodwill in The Rainwater Secret)
- Lily received the Pro Ecclesia Et Pontifice certificate and medal from the Pope and the MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) from the Queen
- She held happy hour every Friday at her cottage – everyone including the priests attended
- She made her own wine …
- But she loved her English tea.
- She was a big practical joker.
- In real life, Lily had six siblings.
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