If you enjoy
a pleasant read that takes you to distant horizons, such as Kenya in the 1920s,
this book is well worth reading.
This is the
memoir of Juanita Carberry who was born and raised in Kenya, it tells us about
her both extraordinary and unhappy childhood. She lost her mother at the age of
three and since that time she lived with her unloving father, stepmother and a
vicious nanny.
As we read
this book, we also learn a little more about the lives of those who made up the
Happy Valley set and the events surrounding the death of Lord Erroll. Juanita
wrote that Delves Broughton admitted to her privately that he was in fact guilty
of the murder, but was acquitted at the trial. Juanita knew all the members of
the Happy Valley set. She disliked this group and when she grew older she
avoided becoming part of it.