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Tony and Rosemary Seys (nee Rothschild) remaining England in 1949, which still experienced the ravages of the Second World War, to build a new lease of life in Kenya. They bought a plantation in the highlands east of Lake Victoria that they called Rhodora and where they organized to stay and help the local population. They published a weekly publication back to their own families in the UK, which many years later Rosemary Seys edited into a remarkable bill of little known areas of African colonial life in those days. This was not the world of "Happy Valley" or "Out of Africa", but an account of good people doing their finest for the many Africans they befriended working on the plantation, and of a life lived in the shadow of the Mau Mau uprising. Rosemary's recollections weave funny anecdotes with serious observations before recalling the sadness the Seys felt when they had to leave their self-made African paradise. The Rhodora Characters is narrated by Rosemary's son, David, who was raised on the plantation and includes excerpts of Rosemary recalling her amazing life report in her own words.
