Nell Norah Jane

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Jane Reid spent 20 years of her life accompanying her diplomat husband on tours of duty to Burma, Guyana, Romania, Malawi, South Africa and Jamaica, continuing a pattern that had started in her childhood and emulated her parents’ postings. In this evocative memoir, she recalls life at her grandparents’ houses in the Birmingham suburbs, pre-war winters in the dry heat of Sudan, and the West Country: a primitive cottage in a remote fishing village, a farm near Bristol and, for seven long years from the age of five, “St Christopher’s School, Rectory Road, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England, Great Britain, Europe, World, Universe”. Her eloquent story is amusing, poignant and beautifully observed.