Wars of the Weavers is Deirdre's memoir. Deirdre was born in Bulawayo in 1965, a week before Prime Minister Ian Smith cut the Rhodesian state's ties with Britain by declaring Unilateral Declaration of Independence. Deirdre is the first of three children born to Beverley who lives with her husband in the house next door to her parents, Nana and Grandpa Weaver. The Weavers are a white Rhodesian family living out their lives in Bulawayo, often gripped by the growing tensions and fears in the land. Beverley, wrapped up in her own problems looks to Grandpa and Nana and to her siblings for the...