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I didn't enjoy this sequel to The Flame Trees of Thika as much as I did the first book, but I'd still recommend it highly. The book hasn't got a central plot that I recall -- it's more episodes that occurred as Huxley grew from a girl to a young woman. The same cast of characters as the first book, for the most part, with some reflections on how WWI had changed the colony.
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The second of Huxley's books that describes her childhood in Kenya. It is a classic of Kenyan literature, with Huxley's trademark not-quite-innocent narrator and her never-equaled descriptions not only of the how Kenya looks but how it sounds, smells and feels.
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Jun 17, 2010
Kimberly
marked it as to-read
