A Handful of Honey: Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeria Audiobook (Free)

Aiming to locate a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants found her rescue on a dark day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and cause along the south coast from the Mediterranean.

Going through Morocco and Algeria she eats pigeon pie with a family group of cannabis farmers, and discovers about the practices of djinns; she encounters people whose protest against the tyrannical King Hassan takes the form of attaching in regards to a Handful of Honey: Aside to the Hand Groves of Morocco and Algeria colanders with their television aerials – a practice he soon outlaws – and results in a stone-age method of making olive-oil, still going strong. She enables a ten-year-old to lead her in to the fundamentalist strongholds of the suburbs of Algiers – where she makes a good friend.

Plunging southwards, regardless, in to the desert, she at last shares a lunch time of salt-cured Saharan haggis with her older friends, in a green and pleasant hand grove perfumed by flowering henna: once, it seems, the favourite fragrance from the Prophet Mohammed. She discovers at journey’s end that existence inside a date-farming oasis, haunting though its tunes may be, isn’t so basic and uncomplicated as she has imagined.

Annie Hawes provides legions of fans. Her writing gets the well-built circulation of fiction and the self-effacing honesty of the journal.