One More Turn of the Page

A haunting photograph leads Jean Hawthorne on a quest that culminates in a truer understanding of Kenya's horrific colonial history as well as a shocking revelation of her own.


Set in 1980's Nairobi, One More Turn of the Page is a story about Jean Hawthorne, a 36 year old well traveled meteorologist from the Midwest, who returns to Africa 25 years after her first visit as a child only to find that she has forgotten most of what she thought she remembered. Searching for clues to her elusive memory, she stumbles upon a photograph whose discovery drives her on a pursuit of an unknown end initiating from an uncertain beginning; a reminiscent journey through a time when native Kenyans were stripped of their lands and not considered citizens of their own country. Ultimately, the search for her past leads to love and friendship, intrigue and deception, corruption and murder.