![]() She went on to write both fiction and non-fiction, including biographies of Kenya's pioneer white settler, Lord Hugh Delamere, and modern nursing's founder, Florence Nightingale. and first cousin of Julian and Aldous) and already an aspiring author. Although this book lacks the detail and the wonder of its predecessors, devotees of her two earlier books will greet many old friends with pleasure.Įlspeth Grant left Africa in 1925 and didn't return until 1933, by which time she was married to Gervas Huxley (grandson of T.H. Now, at the age of 80, she has written Out in the Midday Sun to tidy up the loose ends of her own story, fill in the gaps, and sketch in her own intermittent but intense involvement with East Africa and the gifted, often eccentric men and women who made their lives in colonial Kenya. Did she return as she swore she would? What happened to her parents, Tilly and Robin, struggling in the years between the wars against heavy odds to make a living from coffee farming? The young girl went to college in England, married and became Elspeth Huxley, who later shared her Kenyan childhood in two classic memoirs - The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard - covering the years between 19. THIS IS the book for those who wanted to know what happened to the young girl who left Kenya in tears at the end of the popular television series, The Flame Trees of Thika. ![]() ![]() OUT IN THE MIDDAY SUN My Kenya By Elspeth Huxley Viking. ![]()
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