num_pages: 248
description: A young Australian working girl from London struggles to adapt to diplomatic life among the royal courtiers of Swaziland in post-independence Zimbabwe and in Angola amid the gunfire of the civil war. She accompanies her husband the striding KJ on his African postings together with two English bull terriers and a large redoubtable African tabby cat. As each country unfolds its challenges and discoveries she shares her delight her wry humour and keen sense of the ridiculous. In a darker mood we follow KJ in Somalia during the famine and in Rwanda after the genocide. The book will appeal to travellers; to those who have worked overseas and coped with culture shock. The writer a psychologist delves into history and sociology revels in the bizarre and includes recipes collected along the way.
language: English
title: Culture Shock and Canapes: Adventures of a Diplomatic Wife in Africa
publisher: Quartet Books