This went as disastrously as it could, but she soon got another chance when she found a grounded bronze-winged mannikin finch fledgling after a storm. Collecting hundreds of termites, she fed the bird to a demanding schedule for two weeks before releasing it. From childhood she’d been an obsessive animal rescuer – fishing ants out of swimming pools, for instance – and when she found a swift that had been displaced from its nest, her protective instincts went into overdrive. As a dependent spouse, she was not permitted to work and, in their rural setting, she felt cut off from any expatriate community. Nature-lover Hannah Bourne-Taylor lived in Ghana for eight years for her husband’s job. Today I have a memoir of living between Ghana and England and hand-raising two birds, a Victorian pastiche starring a mixed-race actress in London, and an account of being diagnosed with complex PTSD and working towards healing of childhood trauma. I’m catching up on three 2022 books I was sent for review and didn’t read at their initial publication.
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