FOLLOW ME TO AFRICA, a novel

287pp., paperback, Sourcebooks, Naperville, 2025

ISBN: 9781728295459

Historical novel set in Tanzania in 1983.

Seventeen-year-old Grace Clark, whose mother has just died, accompanies her estranged father to an archeological dig at Olduvai Gorge in Northern Tanzania, where she helps seventy-year-old Mary Leakey sort and pack up fifty years of work.

"An engaging dual timeline story of Dr. Mary Leakey as she immerses herself in discovery of the origins of man in the vast African panorama, and her later life mentorship of a teenage girl, encouraging her to embrace her own future career in the wild. Haw’s love and respect of her subject imbue every page. A thoroughly captivating read." Shelley Noble, author of The Tiffany Girls and The Colony Club

"A warm tale of identity and growth, as a youthful heroine breaking free of her own troubled past proves the perfect foil to the amazing life of archaeologist Mary Leakey." Elizabeth Wein, author of Code Name Verity

Penny Haw is the author of the novels The Woman at the Wheel and The Invincible Miss Cust. She lives near Cape Town.