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A review by shariq312
The Girl Who Saw Lions by Berlie Doherty
4.0
It's one of those books, you start and keep on reading until you devour it to the end. Not because of best-selling tag or somebody loved it so you would too, but because it's simple, uncomplicated and carries a smooth pace throughout.
Abela, a Tanzanian (a country in Africa) girl suffers from absolute poverty and loses her beloved parents one by one. This girl is hard-working and enjoys every moment of life, and combat the trauma for losing her father at an early age, and then her mother to HIV.
Rosa, on the other side, belongs to a stable family lives in northern England city called Sheffield. She loves to skate along with her mother. Her life becomes a bit numb when she listens to the urge of her mother to adopt a child, especially from Tanzania.
Abela moves to England through illicit immigration foster by her Uncle Thomas and her illegal wife Sussie. In order to get the British Passport Thomas performs this risk and gets nothing, but curse from intelligence forces when Abela innocently spills all the matter to one of the School's principal in England. Her matter gets worse when she receives a letter from Sussie who now faces the accuse. The letter is about the pardon from Sussie to mistreating Abela and the news of her Grandmother demise to Malaria.
Later on, Rosa agreed to have an adopted child and he was Anthony, a fluffy boy. He later finds his father and he moves away from Rosa's house. Now the fate of Abela was to meet them and it did happen in the end.
It was a straightforward read. I loved the cute character of Poor Abela who speaks broken English and I am sure you will love it too listening to the vague sentences she tries to speak the pain she hides. ■I SO LOVED THE COVER■
Abela, a Tanzanian (a country in Africa) girl suffers from absolute poverty and loses her beloved parents one by one. This girl is hard-working and enjoys every moment of life, and combat the trauma for losing her father at an early age, and then her mother to HIV.
Rosa, on the other side, belongs to a stable family lives in northern England city called Sheffield. She loves to skate along with her mother. Her life becomes a bit numb when she listens to the urge of her mother to adopt a child, especially from Tanzania.
Abela moves to England through illicit immigration foster by her Uncle Thomas and her illegal wife Sussie. In order to get the British Passport Thomas performs this risk and gets nothing, but curse from intelligence forces when Abela innocently spills all the matter to one of the School's principal in England. Her matter gets worse when she receives a letter from Sussie who now faces the accuse. The letter is about the pardon from Sussie to mistreating Abela and the news of her Grandmother demise to Malaria.
Later on, Rosa agreed to have an adopted child and he was Anthony, a fluffy boy. He later finds his father and he moves away from Rosa's house. Now the fate of Abela was to meet them and it did happen in the end.
It was a straightforward read. I loved the cute character of Poor Abela who speaks broken English and I am sure you will love it too listening to the vague sentences she tries to speak the pain she hides. ■I SO LOVED THE COVER■