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Synopsis
"Fascinating from the outset, very readable and evocative..." - AMAZON REVIEW Juanita Carberry spent her childhood in the 1920s and 1930s on a beautiful Kenyan coffee farm. Brought up by black servants and white governesses, much of her time was spent riding and with the tamed wild animals on the estate. This was the White Mischief era, when parents were busy partying and children lived their own hidden lives. But the less innocent adult life began to encroach on her African idyll. At fifteen Juanita became involved in the Lord Erroll affair: she is the only person to whom Delves Broughton confessed to the murder of Lord Erroll. Juanita's story reveals the darkness behind glittering White Mischief society.
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Early twentieth-century British settlers in Kenya were a mixed lot. Many were pioneers out to make a life, but an equal number were scandalously debauched and in search of the free life they could neither afford nor live back in England. Born thus into the "Happy Valley Set" in 1925, Juanita Carberry from the outset felt all the confusion, anxiety, and loneliness of a child with indifferent, even hostile, parents. Her only relief as a child came from the land of Kenya, its native people and fascinating wildlife. Briony Sykes narrates the story of this difficult childhood partly with the petulant rhythms of the gifted though angry child, but more often with a voice alive with delight at the newness of Kenya unfolding all around her. Both tale and reading captivate us with the richness and fascination of this world that once was but, sadly, can be no more. P.E.F. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherCharnwood
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0708992552
- ISBN 13 9780708992555
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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