A moving evocation of a white farming family's life during the civil war in Rhodesia followed by fresh starts in Zambia and Malawi. Life was difficult, money short, not all the children survived and the feisty mother became at times something of a desperate drunk. It's honest, funny and sad but never mawkish as are so many childhood memoirs. Through it all shines the author's zest for life, her love of Africa and her family.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 18 April 2003 ) |
