Ellie’s upbringing in post-colonial Kenya in the 1960s and 1970s – stiff whiskies, keeping up appearances, and English garden amidst the African bush – was marked by a troubled relationship with a violent father she didn’t really know. So when she returns there after her father’s death, for the first time in twenty-five years, it means facing a past she thought she’d put behind her. But even as childhood memories threaten to paralyze her, Ellie sets out to discover the dark secret at the heart of her father’s life and her parents’ marriage.
