The Salt Road

By: Jane Johnson

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Lameece Issaq

From the author of The Tenth Gift comes another story of exotic, foreign lands, entwining storylines spanning generations, and the quests to overcome love lost.

"My dear Isabelle, in the attic you will find a box with your name on it."

Isabelle’s estranged archeologist father dies, leaving her a puzzle. In a box she finds some papers and a mysterious African amulet—but their connection to her remains unclear until she embarks on a trip to Morocco to discover how the amulet came into her father’s possession. When the amulet is damaged and Isabelle almost killed in an accident, she fears her curiosity has got the better of her. But Taib, her rescuer, knows the dunes and their peoples, and offers to help uncover the amulet’s extraordinary history, involving Tin Hinan—She of the Tents—who made a legendary crossing of the desert, and her beautiful descendant Mariata.

Across years and over hot, shifting sands, tracking the Salt Road, the stories of Isabelle and Taib, Mariata and her lover, become entangled with that of the lost amulet. It is a tale of souls wounded by history and of love blossoming on barren ground.

©2011 Jane Johnson (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Creative writing !

Jane Johnson seriously, never disappoints- her creative writing an entanglement of two amazing characters and bringing their lives together always tremendously at the end I live for all of her books!

The magic that settles deep in the bones

Such richness of all, good and evil, the symbiosis that brings you full circle and the constancy of a people

Must Read!

Such an insight into a beautiful culture. Woven beautifully between two lives of strong resilient women

Intriguing cultural insights

A well woven story with lots of action and intrigue. The insights into culture, as well as the knowledge of rock climbing, and desert terrain added to the tale.

Narrator Makes All The Difference

While I like Jane Johnson’s most recent books, I can’t abide Fiona Hardingham’s narration of this one. I can’t follow the rambling start to this book and found the character of Isabelle hard to take.