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This family biography begins with the story of Fred and Catherine Smithyman of Africa. They met in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, before the 1899 Boer War. After the Great War they moved to Zomba, Nyasaland. There they forged a life for their ten children. The second part follows the life of my father, Mervyn Vice Smithyman, who was one of their children. With Audrey, his new wife and my mother, he joined the British Colonial Administration in Tanganyika and took up political postings in remote villages. In 1956 our family moved to Zanzibar as the islands proceeded on a path to independence....

It is 1964, a month after independence celebrations in the spice islands of Zanzibar, off the east coast of Africa. A brutal uprising takes place apparently led by a shadowy figure, John Okello. In the capital, Stone Town, a British official, Mark Hamilton, struggles to help the Sultan's government survive while protecting his young family. In the countryside, Ahmed al-Ibrahim, a Zanzibari Arab father, faces annihilation and a terrible decision. Fatima is his twelve-year-old daughter, and her life is changed forever by the violence that now sweeps across the islands. Fatima's survival through...