The Last Stop Safari Shop: An epic tale of healing in the African bush

The Last Stop Safari Shop is a beautiful ode to Africa. It is set in South Africa Zimbabwe and Tanzania in the late 1980s and 1990s.In the late 1980s and early 1990s three young people whose life experiences couldnt be more different and each of whom carry deep emotional scars travel to Tanzania.Interior designer Marius discovers that decorating luxury safari lodges in the heat and dust and sometimes torrential rains in remote Africa is very different from the luxury homes in Cape Town.Astrid a physiotherapist has finally fulfilled her dream of flying to Africa leaving behind her cold psychoanalyst parents in Switzerland. To her dismay she discovers that not only do wild animals not line the streets but to go on a safari is way beyond her budget. Evelyn a war widow returns to Zimbabwe after eight lonely years in England to help her with her familys rhino conservation. She is unprepared for what unfolds as her senses return in the warmth of the African sun.By digging deep and finding their inner resources paths cross and unlikely friendships are formed. Under the transformative power of the Africa-ness of Africa all three individuals begin to heal and embrace their lives.Excerpt from the bookEvelyn walked towards the cluster of flame lilies each one a cup of flickering scarlet edged with trickling gold growing up from the deep rich red African soil. She bent down and gently stretched her arms around them just able to touch her fingers together and breathed in deeply. The smell of green ... only here on this land.