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Автор: Kat Gordon
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      An Unsuitable Woman

      Kat Gordon

      First published in hardback as

      The Hunters

The Borough Press

       Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, whilst at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

      The Borough Press

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

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      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

      First published in hardback as The Hunters

      Kat Gordon asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Copyright © Kat Gordon 2018

      Newspaper article, © East African Standard, 14 July 1934

      Selected quotes, taken from Kenya Legislative Council Debates, 1938, vol IV, Defence, col.6

      Selected quotes, taken from Kenya Legislative Council Debates, 1938, vol VI, col.461

      Cover design by Claire Ward © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019

      Cover photographs © PlainPicture (woman) and Shutterstock.com (background)

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      Source ISBN: 9780008253066

      Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780008253080

      Version: 2019-05-03

       Praise for An Unsuitable Woman:

      ‘A rich reimagining of a colonial Eden in which multitudes of serpents lurked’

       Sunday Times

      ‘Kat Gordon has written a gloriously dark tale, packed with heat and glamour, and shot through with a fine, sharp edge. An absolutely compulsive read from beginning to end’

      Liza Klaussman, author of Tigers in Red Weather

      ‘An evocative coming-of-age tale’

       iPaper

      ‘Equally at home evoking the landscapes of east Africa and those of the flawed, capricious human heart … a seductive, troubling journey into Britain’s colonial past’

      Anna Hope, author of Wake and The Ballroom

      ‘An outstanding achievement. This thrilling, evocative novel will transport and absorb you: brilliant’

      Emma Chapman, author of The Last Photograph

       Dedication

       To my son, Noah, and the Somerville girls, for everything.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Part One: 1925–1927

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Part Two: 1933–1937

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four

       Part Three: 1937–1938

       Chapter Twenty-Five

       Chapter Twenty-Six

       Chapter Twenty-Seven

       Chapter Twenty-Eight

       Chapter Twenty-Nine

       Chapter Thirty

       Chapter Thirty-One

       Chapter Thirty-Two

       Historical Note

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by Kat Gordon

       About the Publisher

      Her heart stopped at 20:57 exactly. She had looked at her watch only moments before, and asked the totos to turn on a lamp. She had been reading and hadn’t noticed it getting dark until her eyes had smarted suddenly with the strain.

      It had been a warm evening – a warm end to a hot, sticky day that had wrapped itself around her, dampening her upper lip and armpits