By Diane Hammond
An elephant by no means forgets . . . yet can she dream?
For 41 years, Samson Brown has been taking care of Hannah, the lone elephant on the down-at-the-heels Max L. Biedelman Zoo. Having vowed to not retire until eventually an both loving and dedicated caretaker is located to switch him, Sam rejoices while shrewdpermanent, compassionate Neva Wilson is employed because the new elephant keeper. yet Neva quick discovers what Sam already understands: that regardless of their loving care, Hannah is remoted from different elephants and her ft are approximately ruined from status on difficult concrete all day. utilizing her contacts within the zookeeping international, Neva and Sam hatch a plan to ship Hannah to an elephant sanctuary—just because the zoo's offended, unsatisfied director launches an competitive revitalization crusade that spotlights Hannah because the megastar charm, inextricably tying Hannah's destiny to the destiny of the Max L. Biedelman Zoo.
A captivating, poignant, and fascinating novel guaranteed to enthrall readers of Water for Elephants, Diane Hammond's Hannah's Dream is a superbly advised story wealthy in center, humor, and intelligence.
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One always suspects that he must have knitted it himself. ' Vivien, smiling persistently despite the fact that neither man was now paying any attention to her, passed through the gallery towards her small office at the back. She always enjoyed this walk: the gallery was so cool, so pale, so translucent (the paintings seemed to glow on the light grey walls) that it was as if her own feelings were slowly being bleached out of her until she reached her desk as the efficient secretary of Mr Cumberland and Mr Maitland.
The old man quickly took the coin and held it aloft in his right hand as he gave the pamphlet to Philip. ' He took him over to the north porch, the light from the half-closed door illuminating the righthand side of his body, his creased neck, his old overcoat, and his trembling hand with the coin still in it. 'There,' he said, opening the door and pointing out into the street beyond, There's his house. ' Philip looked in the direction to which he was pointing, and could see what looked like a painted surface raised up beside the main road.
Slowly they approached the baptistery. 'He's all written down, he is. ' And in the gently moving light, stained with the colours of the high windows, the old man pored through some pamphlets which had been left for sale beside a 'World in Peril' poster and a scale model of the church itself. ' He held up a pamphlet with the title Thomas Chatterton: Son of Bristol. ' 'You give what you can. ' Philip searched frantically in the pockets of his jeans, and eventually came out with a pound coin. ' The old man quickly took the coin and held it aloft in his right hand as he gave the pamphlet to Philip.