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The Kenya Box Set: Laugh through your tears and cry through your chuckles with this magnificent memoir collection
You will laugh through your tears and cry through your chuckles with this magnificent collection of Susie Kelly's popular Kenya memoirs
I Wish I Could Say I Was Sorry
Shed a tear at Susie's losses and laugh at her predicaments in this sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking, true story that gives a moving and eye-opening insight into the earlier life of the much-loved travel author, famed for her humour and her honesty.
Saying farewell to post-war London's every shade of grey, she embarks with her glamorous mother and father for a future full of promise, in exotic technicolor Kenya. But her life there soon disintegrates at break-neck speed into a web of jealousy, rejection and casual cruelty. Each time it seems things cannot get any worse, they do as Susie lifts the lid on her often shocking behaviour in her quest to protect herself and those she loves. Rebellious, lonely and self-destructive, it is a small grey horse named Cinderella who saves Susie from herself and brings her the love she craves.
Safari Ants, Baggy Pants & Elephants
More than 40 years after leaving Kenya, Susie returns for a three-week wildlife safari. Her travels take her from opulent 5 star hotels and luxury tents in the wilderness, to shocking poverty in Nairobi's slums, where even among the squalor she finds hope, ambition and resilience.
She renews old friendships, makes new ones and experiences some very close encounters with Kenya's wildlife. This is a journey of discovery and nostalgia, as she searches for the scenes of her childhood and adolescence, so movingly portrayed in I Wish I Could Say I Was Sorry.
Vivid, moving, entertaining. Anybody thinking of taking a safari holiday in Kenya, or who would like to take an armchair safari to Kenya should read this book.
Don't miss the accompanying online photo album.
'Susie is a great ambassador for Kenya. It’s the best safari experience you are likely to get, without going on safari!' French Village Diaries
Return to Kenya
International book tours are unheard of for most authors. After the ecstatic reception of her safari memoir Safari Ants, Baggy Pants & Elephants, Susie is thrilled to receive an invitation to return to her beloved Kenya to launch the African edition in Africa's largest chain of bookshops.
With her usual keen observation and humour, she shares her delight in meeting old friends and new, and enjoying a mini-safari. It wouldn’t be a Susie Kelly journey without a few unexpected hitches, including a tear gassing and being uninvited from a prestige event, all of which simply add to her joy in travelling.
"Hemingway wrote: 'I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.' That is how I feel about Kenya. You feel at once insignificant and amazing, just for being here. This magnificent, beautiful country, birthplace of mankind, owner of my heart." Susie Kelly
Two long memoirs and one shorter memoir, over 150,000 words!
I Wish I Could Say I Was Sorry
Shed a tear at Susie's losses and laugh at her predicaments in this sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking, true story that gives a moving and eye-opening insight into the earlier life of the much-loved travel author, famed for her humour and her honesty.
Saying farewell to post-war London's every shade of grey, she embarks with her glamorous mother and father for a future full of promise, in exotic technicolor Kenya. But her life there soon disintegrates at break-neck speed into a web of jealousy, rejection and casual cruelty. Each time it seems things cannot get any worse, they do as Susie lifts the lid on her often shocking behaviour in her quest to protect herself and those she loves. Rebellious, lonely and self-destructive, it is a small grey horse named Cinderella who saves Susie from herself and brings her the love she craves.
Safari Ants, Baggy Pants & Elephants
More than 40 years after leaving Kenya, Susie returns for a three-week wildlife safari. Her travels take her from opulent 5 star hotels and luxury tents in the wilderness, to shocking poverty in Nairobi's slums, where even among the squalor she finds hope, ambition and resilience.
She renews old friendships, makes new ones and experiences some very close encounters with Kenya's wildlife. This is a journey of discovery and nostalgia, as she searches for the scenes of her childhood and adolescence, so movingly portrayed in I Wish I Could Say I Was Sorry.
Vivid, moving, entertaining. Anybody thinking of taking a safari holiday in Kenya, or who would like to take an armchair safari to Kenya should read this book.
Don't miss the accompanying online photo album.
'Susie is a great ambassador for Kenya. It’s the best safari experience you are likely to get, without going on safari!' French Village Diaries
Return to Kenya
International book tours are unheard of for most authors. After the ecstatic reception of her safari memoir Safari Ants, Baggy Pants & Elephants, Susie is thrilled to receive an invitation to return to her beloved Kenya to launch the African edition in Africa's largest chain of bookshops.
With her usual keen observation and humour, she shares her delight in meeting old friends and new, and enjoying a mini-safari. It wouldn’t be a Susie Kelly journey without a few unexpected hitches, including a tear gassing and being uninvited from a prestige event, all of which simply add to her joy in travelling.
"Hemingway wrote: 'I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.' That is how I feel about Kenya. You feel at once insignificant and amazing, just for being here. This magnificent, beautiful country, birthplace of mankind, owner of my heart." Susie Kelly
Two long memoirs and one shorter memoir, over 150,000 words!
379 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 10, 2020
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