The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream [Paperback]

In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port in the library. All that was missing was a woman to share it with. He adored the beautiful aviatrix Ethel Locke King, but she was almost twenty years his senior, married, and his aunt. Lorna, the only other woman Gore-Brown cared for, was married as well, but years later her orphaned daughter would become Gore-Browne's wife. The story of a colonialist who beat his servants yet supported Rhodesian independence and who was given a chief's burial by the local elders when he died,The Africa Houserescues from oblivion the life story of an astonishing man, an astonishing marriage, and an astonishing house (The Spectator).

An amazing story of high hopes, lost love and ruined lives. -Sunday Times (London)

With scintillating prose and a vivid imagination, Lamb recreates Gore-Brownes life from 1914 to 1967, and what a life it was . . . with mesmerizing detail. -Booklist