Publisher's Synopsis
A compelling story based on the actual lives of a family living through the dying days of British Colonial rule in what was then Northern Rhodesia and is now Zambia, utilising extracts from the diary of Charles Barlow. In 1945 Charles Barlow is a man in his 80s, with 3000 acres of farmland at Lemera, where he lives with his wife Beth who has a child called Rick from a previous marriage. Gabriel Ellison has carefully woven a moving account which records the lives of Charles and Beth, and their close friends and grandchildren, using archival material from the period, with the book beginning and ending with poignant memories by their granchild Jamie.
