Carolyn Walsh 's Reviews > Sweetness in the Belly

"Sweetness in the Belly","Camilla Gibb","0385660170","review","This is the story of a woman whose parents were nomadic hippies wandering through Europe and North Africa. When she was 8 her parents were murdered in Morocco and she was taken into the home of a Sufi Moslem sheik and immersed in the Koran. During a time of political turmoil she ends up in Ethiopia. As a white Moslem woman there she finds it difficult to fit into the society. She falls in love with a native doctor, but there are difficulties due to culture, but also because her Moslem faith is stricter than his.He disappears during time of revolution and she returns to England. Here she works with refugees but never forgets him. Did not care for the characters or the way the flashbacks were arranged. Also did not care for the setting, although I love Ethiopia."