Anita Rose's life was shaped by three transformational events in her early teens: the outbreak of war, her being sent from London to Chicago to live with an uncle and aunt and a jealous cousin, and the drowning of her father when a transatlantic ship carrying 90 child evacuees was torpedoed by a German submarine. This is the story of her survival and subsequent triuumph.  

“I am sitting with the President of Hungary, having just presented my credentials as British Ambassador to his country. I am excited and a little overwhelmed. Everyone is calling me ‘Excellency’ which I am not used to. I have a chauffeur outside, in a British racing-green Jaguar which flies the Union Jack. Is this really me? How did it all happen? This is my story.”

Jane Reid owes her existence to the fact that her father was pulled out of a well in the Sudan in 1927 by Orde Wingate, the legendary leader of the Chindits in Burma, and went on to write a play about infidelity. In this humorous, evocative, beautifully written memoir, Jane charts an extraordinary twelve-year period in her young life from 1933 to 1945.

When Linda Lubbe becomes Modimolle's new rector, she finds she's not alone in ministering to the least evangelised peoples of Southern Africa. Her church, once run by a Catholic priest, houses Anglicans, Methodists and Presbyterians, and runs alongside Dutch Reformed, Afrikaans and charismatic communities. How does she manage? Read on.