Return to the desert

Return to the desert is a sequel to the book “The seed of new life”. On this book a child faces her father and this child’s mother has to face her past. They have to go for a journey to Egypt in order to remain their connection with their Egyptian family.

"I have come to visit Cairo. Now I have come back. Over three years have passed since I moved away from Egypt with my little baby Mona. Over two years have passed since the last time I had visited in Egypt with my daughter.

I have come to face my fears. I have come to size up my strength. I have come to find out, what kind of attitude the relatives have towards me, and whether it is still possible for Mona to keep in touch with them. I have come to realize that I have been blind."

Elise Tykkyläinen is a Finnish freelancer writer, journalist and a video-editor / camera operator.
She has written so far three books in Finnish and translated two of them in English.