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Selengai is an evocative and nostalgic story of
colonial Africa, set in Kenya before Uhuru. A modern story of three beautiful farms, Selengai, Bahati and Saba Saba, each loved passionately by their owners who will fight drought, disease even death to keep them. With the spaceless plains of Masai country as the backdrop to their lives, it is their memories, adventures, joy and pain that inspire them in the country in which they have all grown up. Time to move on from Out of Africa and The Flame Trees of Thika!About the author
Born in Crowborough, Sussex, Mary Rose Hall (pen name) lived for
over 40 years in Kenya with her parents, both of whom farmed in
the Highlands, while her mother also ran a successful business
in Nairobi. Marrying in 1956, her two children were subsequently
born there. After Uhuru she moved down to South Africa with her
family before returning to the UK where she and her husband
started a Banking College in the City.
Also by Mary Rose Hall:
Whispering Grass, like Selengai before it, evokes that delightful time of colonial stability when farmers and British settlers planned and schemed in what is now a lost world - a world that was eventually swept away by the winds of change that culminated in Uhuru.
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