Africa House

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Christina Lamb's The Africa House is the bestselling account of an English gentleman & his African dream. In the last decades of the British Empire Stewart Gore-Brown build himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a sprawling country estate modelled on the finest homes of England complete with uniformed servants daily muster parades & rose gardens. He wanted to share it with the love of his life the beautiful unconventional Ethel Locke King one of the first women to drive & fly. She however was nearly twenty years his senior married & his aunt. Lorna the only other woman he had ever cared for had married another many years earlier. Then he met Lorna's orphaned daughter so like her mother that he thought he had seen a ghost. It seemed he had found companionship & maybe love
- but the Africa house was his dream & it would be a hard one to share. From a world of British colonials in Africa with their arrogance & vision to the final sad denouement. Leaving the once majestic house abandoned & a forgotten ruin of a bygone age Christina Lamb evokes a story full of passion adventure & final betrayal. The story she tells is in equal measure absorbing affecting & bizarre". (Sunday Telegraph). " An amazing story of high hopes lost love & ruined lives". (Sunday Times). Christina Lamb is an award-winning journalist. Currently roving Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Sunday Times she has been a foreign correspondent for almost 20 years living in Pakistan Brazil & South Africa first for the Financial Times then the Sunday Times. She is the author of the best-selling book The Africa House as well as House of Stone Waiting For Allah & Small Wars Permitting: Despatches from Foreign Lands."