Book review: The Saviour Fish, by Mark Weston

When his wife took a job training teachers for a British government aid programme, Mark Weston had expected somewhere less remote. Somewhere more accessible, more connected. Instead, they got a placement on Ukerewe, a remote island on Tanzania’s Lake Victoria. While his wife teaches, Mark observes and writes, and the result of their two year stay is the rather special The Saviour Fish.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from the book, and the opening chapter or two seemed to be fairly familiar...