She was delighted at the thought that other people might enjoy her memoirs and gave her consent. As it happened I never did get to do anything about publishing them, but so many people borrow my copy that I thought I would make them more widely available in this way.

The story starts with her childhood in a comfortable home in Cape Town, takes one through her teenage years, university and study abroad, romantic dilemmas, and ends when she is a farmer's wife living in a remote part of Rhodesia, and learning how to cope with hardships there.

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