Leleet

Jane Graham and her husband lived and worked for most of their lives in some of Africa’s most beautiful and remote national parks, where Jane faced the daily challenge of maintaining a ‘normal’ family life, while at the same time struggling to keep working as a professional artist. Whether traipsing through the savannah in search of elephants, building a makeshift artist’s studio in the bush, or setting up a community craft project in a remote village, she showed an unflagging and uncompromising determination to be herself – whatever ‘the world’ might think of her… In this engaging and evocative autobiography, Jane Graham looks back over her nomadic, not to say haphazard life – from her idyllic childhood spent in the West Country to lonely sojourns in some of Africa’s awe-inspiring landscapes. By turns tender and uproarious, meditative and dramatic, Leleet – The Dawn is not only a revealing memoir of an extraordinary woman but also a vivid portrait of a continent, in all its beguiling, and sometimes infuriating, complexity.