The Search for Home

If you find it difficult to imagine the horrors of genocide, a nation torn apart and becoming a refugee, this book will help you to do so through the eyes of a child who witnessed all of these events first hand. In an engaging and compelling style, Beatrice helps us engage with the plight of too many millions of people in our world right now. A must read!

This is a remarkable book, hope-filled and inspirational. Beatrices experiences were horrific, along with many others, but Gods faithfulness and grace shine through this gloriously honest testimony. "Enjoy" would be the wrong word, but read this and you will be encouraged, challenged and stirred to pursue Jesus and live for Him.

Reading The Search for Home makes me incredibly grateful to God. It gives us an immense insight in the life of refugees and the complex journey they have to go through in order to find a home. Beatrice tells her story of growing up in enormously taxing circumstances, and with a real honesty both in terms of dreams and disappointments. The Search for Home is a tremendous read that will reignite hope its readers. It is such an important story, particularly in this time of significant refugee movements across the world.

I am so grateful to God for keeping Beatrice and her family safe across her whole journey and doubly thankful that she is part of our Manchester family of faith. I thoroughly recommend this book to you and hope that you will be uplifted as you read this story.

What an amazing, gripping account of a familys journey from heartache to freedom! Although I was aware of some of the challenges that Beatrice and the family had overcome, my heart and mind were gripped by the depth of the despair that they encountered and the wonderful provision of God throughout the journey. I couldn't put the book down! May you be blessed, encouraged and inspired as you join with Beatrice and her family in The Search for Home.

I could not put it down. I went through every emotion you can imagine as I was riveted to its pages. What Beatrice and her family endured and what they saw as children no one should have to go through. Well written, easy to read and completely enthralling. A story that needs to be told and Beatrice delivers it with excellence.

I have known Beatrice ever since she entered the UK, as one of her Pastors, and as a family friend. Beatrice writes from her heart and her pen is dipped in the blood of the nation she loves so dearly – Rwanda. Frustration, oppression, abuse, terror, rage, confusion and a battered but brave personal faith in the God of love stains every page.

I found the read to be disturbing, unsettling and compelling in equal measures, and Beatrice takes us on the rollercoaster ride of her own journey through Africa and Europe but lands us safely – wondering how and why we refuse to learn the lessons of history and seemed doomed to repeat them over and over.

There are unique aspects to her story – but bloody genocide is unfortunately not unique. By the time you close the book, you will wonder if this is a story about the past or a warning about the present. If you read it as a Christian, I hope it stirs you to have a biblical paradigm on the moral issues of immigration, totalitarianism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. To do nothing in response is to be criminally complicit – exactly what you will do is entirely up to you.