Beverley Harper

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Beverley Harper


Born
Australia
Died
January 01, 2002

Influences
Her memories of Africa


Beverley Harper was born in Bulli on the New South Wales south coast. In 1967 she travelled to Africa, intending to spend one year there. She stayed twenty, returning to settle in Australia in 1988. Despite loving the northern tablelands, the memories of Africa have provided the inspiration for her best-selling novels and she visited that continent for research purposes once a year.

Beverley Harper died of cancer in 2002. She rests at peace in the Africa she so loved. Her ashes lay by the Boteti River in Botswana, below a lodge called Leroo-la-Tau. It means footprints of lion.

She left a draft of her final novel, Footprints of Lion, which was lovingly completed by her husband, Robert Harper, and Peter Watt.

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Echo of an Angry God

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The Forgotten Sea

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Shadows in the Grass

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Footprints of Lion

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Storms over Africa

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“it was difficult to stay upright. Once rolling, the oxen were as”
Beverley Harper, Shadows in the Grass