John Chambers was brought up on Belfast's notorious Loyalist Glencairn estate, during the height of the Troubles. From an early age he witnessed violence, hatred and horror as Northern Ireland tore itself apart in civil strife. Kneecapping, brutal murders, and even public tarring-and-feathering were
Monkeys in My Garden: Unbelievable But True Stories of My Life in Mozambique
β Scribed by Pixley, Valerie
- Book ID
- 110458673
- Publisher
- Troubador Publishing Ltd
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 7 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781783068715
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
It's hard to believe Mozambique is a country which rarely has stories written about it, when truly extraordinary things happen to the people who live there. Valerie Pixley is one of these people, and she believes that the life experiences she went through were too incredible to keep to herself. Monkeys in My Garden is a true-life adventure story of Valerie and her husband O'D's life in the Nhamacoa Forest. From an idyllic life in the Algarve that was destroyed by an enormous fire, to a ruin of a house in Mozambique with grass for a roof and no doors or glass in the windows, this is a wild mix of hilarious and hair-raising experiences that involved witchcraft, corruption and even a life-saving miracle. Colourful characters wander in and out of Valerie's story, including a dangerous spitting cobra and seven armed bandits who attacked her home and stole many of her possessions, including the manuscript for this book β which would have been lost had she not already emailed a...
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