Allan's Wife

A quietly powerful memoir unfolds as the trusted chronicler of a legendary African explorer finally puts pen to paper. He has inherited the adventurer’s scattered journals, and among them lies an intimate manuscript devoted entirely to the love and loss that shaped his later years. The narrative begins with the narrator’s own modest upbringing in an English parish, a world of hollow trees and attic bedrooms, before the call of the continent drags him far from home.

From that humble origin, the story moves to the fierce, sun‑baked plains where the explorer met his wife, a partnership forged amid danger and wonder. Their marriage becomes the emotional core of a tale that promises vivid encounters with fire‑fighters, Zulu warriors, and the untamed wilderness, all filtered through the lens of grief that still lingers. As the author wrestles with the weight of memory, listeners are invited to share in the early chapters of a life that straddles civilized England and the wild heart of Africa.