It was sheer heaven
Bee Wilson: Just Being British, 9 May 2019
Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant
by Barbara Hosking.
Biteback, 384 pp., £9.99, March 2019,978 1 78590 462 2 Show More
by Barbara Hosking.
Biteback, 384 pp., £9.99, March 2019,
“... Barbara Hosking was eating chicken curry in a bungalow in Tanganyika one day in the 1950s when she felt the room shaking. She was lunching with her old schoolfriend Mary, and this was the bungalow they shared. Both women were then working as office managers for a British-owned gold, copper and silver mine in Mpanda ... ”