The Hanging Tree - David Lambkin

The hanging tree - David Lambkin "Present and past Africa and intriguing protagonists are woven in this haunting and sensual tale which is impossible to put down." Kuki Gallmann When Kathryn Widd, palaeontologist and amateur cellist, accepts an assignment to investigate a two million year old fossil skull in the Kenyan wilderness, she little suspects how profoundly her excavations will change her life. The further she probes, the more deeply she is drawn into past lives and a world turned upside down by witchcraft. Part detective story, part elegy for lost innocence, David Lambkin's dark novel moves inexorably to a tragic climax in the desert wastes, weaving together an illicit love affair between an English noblewoman and a professional hunter on safari in 1908, a mysterious death that took place four million years before, and Kathryn's own shocking discoveries about human nature. David Lambkin was born in England but has spent many years in Africa. He divides his time between his work as a creative director in an advertising agency and his pursuit of solitude in the wilder parts of east, central and southern Africa. His first novel, Plain of Darkness, won the 1992 CNA Prize for best debut work.

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