Jeanne was eight when she saw her mother and brother brutally murdered in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The only member of her family to survive, she was taken in by children’s author Hanna Jansen and her husband. She’s one of twelve children adopted by the couple in Germany – most of them refugees from war-torn countries. From Jeanne’s pre-war childhood, through the horrors of massacre to a new home in a new country, Hanna retells her adoptive daughter’s powerful story in the novel – Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You. They talk to Ritula about writing the book, which has been translated and now published for the first time in the UK.
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You is published in Great Britain by Anderson Press Limited.
