Princesses of the Oasis. Book 1

Twin sisters Andjum and Baisan were born in an oasis in the great, beautiful, ruthless Sahara desert. But little Baisan is bought from a poor Arab family by Fernand Randel, an officer of the French army, and his whimsical wife Françoise—so she can be raised as their own daughter. Though the girls grow up in different conditions, they are bound by an invisible thread. The life of the French colony, what Algeria was like in the 19th century; the everyday life of the Bedouins; ruthlessness and humanity; the thirst for justice and love in spite of everything—this is the new adventurous novel by Laura Beckett.