Drumbeats

By Julia Ibbotson

It’s 1965 and 18-year-old Jess escapes her stifling English background for a gap year in Ghana, West Africa.

But it is a time of political turbulence across the region. As she fights to keep her young love who waits back in England, Jess is thrown into the physical dangers of civil war, tragedy, and the emotional conflict of a disturbing new relationship.

Drumbeats is a coming of age story that takes the reader hand-in-hand with Jess on her journey toward adulthood over a trilogy of acclaimed, stirring novels.