Heather Benson's account of her years in Uganda is both the story of a marriage and a reflection of a country in crisis. Her book describes six years of an extraordinary life and offers an insight into the nightmare politics of a regime which the rest of the world long chose to ignore. The author recounts how she, a young New Zealand woman, met Joe, a Ugandan, at Victoria University. The couple fell in love and married. In 1969, full of idealism, they returned to Uganda to live. Heather took charge of a poverty-stricken nursery school, determined to make a place for herself in her new country. But Idi Amin was beginning his ruthless rise to power. Law and order crumbled. Joe narrowly escaped the death squads, and soon the couple were drawn into a world where fear and terror became the norm, where friends disappeared and bodies were washed up on the shores of the lakes. Into this chaos their children were born. Benson describes the intense pressure on her marriage, which increased as Joe drifted back into the familiar ways of his culture. Heather Benson left Uganda, with her children, at the end of 1975. She now lives in Wellington.
- ISBN10 1863733876
- ISBN13 9781863733878
- Publish Date 23 October 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 September 2010
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Allen & Unwin
- Format Paperback
- Pages 248
- Language English