This is the story of Veronica Walker's life. Roni was our mother and her life was extraordinary. Born in Northern Rhodesia she grew up not as a privileged white child in colonial Africa but as the daughter a failed gold prospector. Her early life was one lived close to poverty in a colonial environment where Europeans were wealthy and successful Roni had the free spirit of Africa in her very bones and she also had a pioneer's strength of character that allowed her to triumph over adversity, a constant in her life Roni had a wicked sense of humour and dogged determination. She did not suffer...