Sara Banerji Blood Precious Pbk published January 2007 by Transita at £7.99 ISBN: 1905175329

During the 2nd World War Sara Banerji lived with her mother, brother and sister, in Oxfordshire, while her father fought in the war. After the war she emigrated with her parents, two brothers and sister, to what was then Southern Rhodesia where they lived out in the African bush in a single mud rondavel, with no electricity or running water. Sara met her husband in a coffee bar in Oxford when he was an undergraduate at Christ Church. He was a customer and she a waitress. They spent the child rearing years in the high hills of S India, where he was a tea planter and she painted in oils, rode as a jockey on the flat, and wrote her first novel. They returned to England in 1973, with five pounds each. Sara borrowed money, bought ponies in auctions and taught riding. Later, she started a gardening business in Sussex.