In 1978 in the final bloodiest phase of Rhodesias struggle to become Zimbabwe eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to a wild beautiful farm on the banks of a slow-flowing river. The house was the scene of a horrific guerrilla attack & settling there changes Laurens life irrevocably. RAINBOWS END captures the overwhelming beauty & extraordinary danger of life in the African bush. Laurens childhood reads like a girls own adventure story as at the height of the war she rides through the wilderness on her horse Morning Star encountering lions crocodiles vicious ostriches & mad cows. Yet the greatest threat is the ruthless guerrillas who prowl the land making each day more dangerous vivid & prized than the last.