From the back of the book:
1921. In the wilds of the Malaysian jungle, a clutch of small British children are being brought up by a Swiss nanny, with a monkey for a pet and deadly scorpions in the night nursery…
From an eccentric childhood in Malaysia, the south of France and only occasionally Britain, to her years as a young news reporter in Algeria and Italy during World War II, Suzanne St Albans has had an extraordinary life.
Suzanne St Albans has had a very intresting life – certainly the first twenty five years or so (which are dealt with in this memoir) appear to have been. Born in Malaya, where she spends a few years of her eccentric childhood, she lived much of her life in the south of France, before going to school in Paris and then later for a short time in England. When war threatens their French idyll, the family flee to England again, and Suzanne now about twenty starts work in the county library. Soon – longing for a more active role in the war she finds herself working for Basic News -Psychological warfare Branch in Algiers, and later Italy. A very readable and engaging memoir.
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