Africa House - Christina Lamb

Africa House; The true story of an English gentleman and his African Dream - Christina Lamb - Penguin Books - 345pp - Black & white photographs - Paperback in very good condition - Internally clean and tightly bound - one previous ownership on back of cover.

In the decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Browne built himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia, a sprawling country estate modeled on the finest homes of England, complete with uniformed servants, daily muster parades, rose gardens and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port in the library. He wanted to share it with the love of his life, the beautiful, unconventional Ethel Locke King, one of the first women to drive and fly. She, however was nearly twenty years his senior, married and his aunt. Lorna, the only other woman he had ever really 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 and maybe love - but the Africa House was his dream and it would be a hard one to share.