Back to Africa
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While visiting her son Jonathan in prison, Daisy heard a strange story. Heâd befriended an old man who was serving a life sentence for a crime he hadnât committed. Of course every inmate says that, but Johnny-John believed this manâs protestations of innocence and begged his mother to look into it.
The facts of the case had taken place in Zambia long ago, when it was a British colony, so Daisy started her investigation among ex-colonials whoâd returned to England. However, it soon became clear that the people holding the key to the mystery were still living in Africa, so Daisy took a flight to Lusaka to seek out these witnesses.
The truth turned out to be as strange as life in the African bush can be. It slowly emerged from a missionary daughterâs rambling memoir about the long-lost world she grew up in. Daisy had to follow a winding trail, but in the end she was mysteriously led to unexpected revelations.
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Nick Aaron is Dutch, but he was born in South Africa (1956), where he attended a British-style boarding school, in Pietersburg, Transvaal. Later he lived in Lausanne (Switzerland), in Rotterdam, Luxembourg and Belgium. He worked for the European Parliament as a printer and proofreader. Currently he's retired and lives in Malines.
Recently, after writing in Dutch and French for many years, the author went back to the language of his mid-century South African childhood. A potential global readership was the incentive; the trigger was the character of Daisy Hayes, who asserted herself in his mind wholly formed.
Check out Nick's author page at www.nickaaronauthor.com
