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Daughter of Nomads
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Master storyteller Rosanne Hawke effortlessly interweaves ancient Mughal history and settings, fables and traditional story threads to bring to life a magical fantasy.

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Overview

First Moon of Summer, 1662: Fourteen-year-old Jahani lives peacefully in the village of Sherwan. But havoc is brewing in the Mughal Empire with tyrants and war lords burning villages in their quest to rule the northern kingdoms. After an assassin strikes in a bazaar, Jahani discovers her life is not as it seems.

Before long, she is fleeing with her mysterious protector Azhar. Will their journey to the Qurraqoram Mountains lead Jahani to danger or to her destiny?

Details
Rosanne Hawke, author of Kelsey and the Quest of the Porcelain Doll, The Messenger Bird, Sailmaker, The Keeper, Killer Ute, Jehan and the Quest of the Lost Dog, The Leopard Princess, and the Daughter of Nomads

Rosanne Hawke

Rosanne Hawke is a South Australian author of over thirty books. She lived in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates as an aid worker for ten years. Her books include Kelsey and the Quest of the Porcelain Doll, a CBCA Notable Book, and Taj and theGreat Camel Trek, winner of the 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Children’s Literature and shortlisted for the 2012 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She is the 2015 recipient of the Nance Donkin Award; an Asialink, Carclew, Varuna and May Gibbs Fellow; and a Bard of Cornwall. She has taught creative writing at Tabor Adelaide and writes in an old Cornish farmhouse with underground rooms, near Kapunda.