{"product_id":"9780987171276","title":"The Guinea Fowl Girl: A colonial childhood Southern Rhodesia 1939-1958","description":"This memoir is set during a time long before the independence of Zimbabwe from Britain.\u003cp\u003eMy father and mother (he being a magistrate and local governor) lived in Southern Rhodesia throughout the '40s and '50s, and this is a story of what life was like in those days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMother and her family were from South Africa and my father was born in Cornwall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have tried to capture time and place as seen through my eyes, the eyes of a child. I wanted to get all of this down; the society, cultural norms, our family history etc., before everything about that time disappears for ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is no a political treatise, but an account of a life as seen through the eyes of a child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe names of the towns have all changed since African independence. I have kept to the names we whites used during that time for authentication.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fastnet Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49808018112752,"sku":"9780987171276","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780987171276","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}