Incredibly beneficial in helping me conjure both colonial Kenya and the lives of these British expats were The Flame Trees of Thika and Nine Faces of Kenya: Portrait of a Nation, by Elspeth Huxley; The Bolter, by Frances Osborne; The Ghosts of Happy Valley, by Juliet Barnes; The Tree Where Man Was Born, by Peter Matthiessen; Swahili Tales, by Edward Steere; and Kenya: A Country in the Making, 1880–1940, by Nigel Pavitt.
BY PAULA MCLAIN
Circling the Sun
The Paris Wife
A Ticket to Ride
Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses: A Memoir
About the Author
PAULA MCLAIN is the author of The Paris Wife, a New York Times and international bestseller. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. McLain is also the author of two collections of poetry; a memoir, Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses; and a first novel, A Ticket to Ride. She lives in Cleveland with her family.