Last Orders at Harrods: An African Tale
Michael Holman
Nov 2007 · Kuwisha trilogy Book 1 · Bolinda · Narrated by Jerome Pride
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Charity Mupanga is the widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot), a favourite meeting place for the movers and shakers of Kibera. While she can handle most challenges, from an erratic supply of Worcestershire sauce, the secret ingredient in her cooking, to the political tensions in East Africa's most notorious slum and a cholera outbreak that follows the freak floods in the state of Ubuntu, some threatening letters from London lawyers are beginning to overwhelm her. Well-meant but inept efforts to foil the lawyers by Edward Furniver, a former fund manager who runs Kibera's co-operative bank and who seeks Charity's hand in marriage, bring Harrods International Bar to the brink of disaster, and Charity close to despair. In the nick of time an accidental riot, triggered by the visit to the slum of World Bank President Hardwick Hardwicke, coupled with some quick thinking by Titus Ntoto, the 14-year-old leader of Kibera's toughest gang, the Mboya Boys United Football Club, help Charity - and Harrods - to triumph in the end.
About the author
Michael Holman was brought up in Zimbabwe. He was Africa editor of the Financial Times from 1984 until 2002. Michael is a respected freelance journalist and continues to travel extensively in Africa. He currently lives in east London.
Jerome Pride is an actor who has trained in both England and Australia and has worked extensively in film, television, radio plays, commercials, theatre, voiceover and audiobook narration. Jerome has appeared in television shows like Frayed, Blue Heelers and McLeod’s Daughters. He has many audiobooks to his name, including Fiona McIntosh’s DCI Jack Hawksworth series, the Two Steps duology by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion and Marlborough Man by Alan Carter.
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