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Christina Lamb is an award-winning journalist who, since graduating from Oxford twelve years ago, has lived overseas as a correspondent for the Financial Times in Pakistan and Brazil, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and correspondent for the Sunday Times in South Africa. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, she is an inveterate traveller. Her previous book, Waiting for Allah- Pakistan's Struggle for Democracy, was published by Hamish Hamilton and Penguin. She is currently Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Sunday Times and lives with her husband and young son in London and Portugal.
The true story of how in 1927 the wealthy romantic imperialist Stewart Gore-Browne built a palatial mansion complete with tower, library, gardens and servants' quarters (for his uniformed black staff) in the middle of the African bush where he lived with an orphan girl half his age. It is unclear whether we should see this bizarre and ultimately disastrous enterprise in retrospect as a piece of English eccentricity or as an imperialist racist fantasy. Either way this is an unusual story, well told. (Kirkus UK)
