Out in the Midday Sun

Elspeth Huxley captivated readers throughout the world with her "memories of an African childhood" in The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard. In this final volume she tells the story of her adult life in Africa, in which the vigorously evoked personalities - from the pioneer Lord Delamere and Baroness Blixen to Jomo Kenyatta - blend with her superb description of the social, cultural and political upheavals of the time.