For fans of Dinah Jefferies, Kate Morton, Rachel Hore, Jenny Ashcroft. It's 1965 and 18 year old Jess escapes her stifling English home for a gap year in Ghana, West Africa. But it's a time of political turbulence across the region. Fighting to keep her young love who waits back in England, she's thrown into the physical dangers of civil war, tragedy, and the emotional conflict of a disturbing new relationship. And why do the drumbeats haunt her dreams? This is a coming of age, rite of passage story which takes the reader hand in hand with Jess, on her journey towards the complexities and mysteries of a disconcerting adult world. This is the first novel in the acclaimed Drumbeats Trilogy: Drumbeats, Walking in the Rain, Finding Jess. Reviews of Drumbeats include : "Brilliantly crafted book, beautifully written" Jo Lambert "Magical ... breath-taking ... contrasting this lightness, the exotic, is the harsh reality of the uprising against President Nkrumah" Zoe, Zooloo's Book Diary blog "Historical moments threaded throughout were extremely well researched ... Haunting rhythms of the drumbeats wove through the storyline in a rich tapestry to create a poetic cultural layer to the story" Stacy, Stacy is Reading blog "Uplifting, well written book" Natalie, The Spoonie Mummy blog