This is the story of Veronica Walker. A second generation white African this is the story of how one woman learnt to accept loss and rebuild her life time and again and how she learnt to fight for herself against a society where women were deemed as second class citizens and the possession of their husbands or fathers. Fighting for her children's safety, Veronica learns to demand her voice be heard and she be accepted for the independent woman she was.
Veronica was born and bought up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). She witnessed the changing face of Africa and the turbulent political landscapes of Southern Africa. she spent her childhood following in the footsteps of her father, a gold prospector. Following her mothers footsteps she trained as a nurse in the 1950s but as was the tradition had to leave when she married John Walker a farmer/butche
