Anyone who knows anything about Rhodesia will enjoy and identify with this poignant and evocative collection of stories about growing up there.
These memories are seen through the eyes of a boy and his sibling running free in the sprawling suburbs of post-war Salisbury, then as an adolescent at a leading boys school and later as a young man in the British South Africa Police.
John Osborne is the consummate story teller and his observations are always spiced with large doses of humour.
