Who Killed Piet Barol?

Who Killed Piet Barol?By: Richard Mason One of the Best Books of the Year: Newsday, The Times, The Observer, Mail on Sunday This gorgeous treat of a novel (The Times, Book of the Month) is a funny, sexy, irreverent, and intensely moving portrait of what unites human beings when their sacred mysteries are blown apart. Avoiding the trauma of the First World War, Piet Barol heads into Africas greatest forest. With a business to build and secrets to escape, hes running out of

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But how can Piper ever really recover from the blow she suffered five years ago

she must search for the magic within herself - to save everything and everyone she loves