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Veronica Cecil was 25 years old when her husband was offered employment at a sizable multi-national company in the Congo. Filled up with enthusiasm for his or her new lease of life, the couple and their 11-month-old son set off for an African adventure. Very soon, however, Veronica started to realise that life in the Congo was not what she had imagined. Food shortages were an everyday occurrence; she felt like an outsider at the club in Léopoldville, which only the Belgians and other expats frequented; and flickers of violence were needs to erupt everywhere. Six months later Veronica and her family were delivered to Elizabetha, a remote palm oil plantation on the banks of the Congo River. But even here paradise didn't last. Civil war broke out, and the rebels captured the neighbouring town of Stanleyville and took all the whites hostage. Even though Veronica was on the verge of having a baby, the problem was so dangerous that she and her toddler had to be evacuated. Leaving her husband and all their possessions behind, she and her son started over a two-day journey through the jungle. But on the plane back to Leopoldville, the first labour pains began....
