Robert Smith Literary agency » Juliet Barnes https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:58:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the lost world of Africa’s infamous aristocrats https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/the-ghosts-of-happy-valley/ https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/the-ghosts-of-happy-valley/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:53:00 +0000 http://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/?p=1466 The Happy Valley set’s notoriety was sealed in 1941 with the still unsolved murder of the Earl of Errol. Juliet Barnes explores Happy Valley in a remarkable archaeological quest to find the homes and haunts of the extraordinary and vanished characters. With the help of African guides, and the memories of elderly expats, she brings […]

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]]> Barnes The Ghosts of Happy ValleyThe Happy Valley set’s notoriety was sealed in 1941 with the still unsolved murder of the Earl of Errol. Juliet Barnes explores Happy Valley in a remarkable archaeological quest to find the homes and haunts of the extraordinary and vanished characters. With the help of African guides, and the memories of elderly expats, she brings new insights to their gilded but frantic lives, and updates the area’s traumatic history from the Mau Mau atrocities in the 50s to the forest and animal devastations of today.

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