Lingmere Zoo is about to close and its twin lionesses, Lorna and Ellen, will be put down unless a new home can be found for them. So when a sanctuary in Africa offers to take the animals, Lorna and Ellen begin the long journey together. But Lorna wants her freedom and dramatically escapes ot the English countryside leaving Ellen to face an unknown fate, alone. Can the lionesses survive without each other in their frightening and confusing new worlds? And will they ever meet again?

 

This book is part of a book series called Lions Of Lingmere .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Cornerstone .

Colin Dann won the Arts Council National Award for Children's Literature for his first novel, The Animals of Farthing Wood.