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A Strange Fish Swimming in a Foreign Sea-bookcover

By: Adrienne Nash

A Strange Fish Swimming in a Foreign Sea

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Sierra Leone prior to and post-Independence in the early 1960s, seemed a place of tranquillity to Tim May, just twenty-one years old. He and his companions worked and played hard but Tim was labelled a failure in Freetown, in work and in health and as his manager Mr Enk said, ‘I’m sending you to manage Port Loko branch, you will bloody well sink or swim.’ It was the time-honoured treatment of a failure in the old Empire.


Management was a daunting prospect, especially without a knowledge of Bank accounting, but Tim faces the future with fatalistic hope. Immature and wracked by personal problems the prospect is bleak, particularly dealing with the wily, cunning mostly Lebanese customers who grubbed a living thousands of miles from their nation’s internecine wars. It is not only the customers Tim has to combat, but the climate, diseases and general ill health and his mental state, a strange fish in a foreign sea. It seemed the bugs and creatures, the customers, his fellow expatriates and most of all his real persona all combined to defeat him.


Tim though is a strong fish swimming amongst predators and escapes to fight other.

Adrienne May/Nash September 2022.

Born in 1939 just outside greater London on the North Downs, my first years were traumatic. Nightly air raids, troops practicing street warfare in and around our area, the V1 ‘Doodlebugs,’ and the looming threat of the V2 rocket. Chaotic schooling due to my mother’s strange ideas followed, ending in boarding school where after ‘O’ levels, I struggled with depression and mental health. This book explores that struggle, particularly the five years I spent in Sierra Leone, the characters I met there, the near-death experiences I faced, and the adventures I had pre-Independence and in the five years after.


Novels by Adrienne Nash:


The Quartet. Trudi; ~ Trudi in Paris; ~ Trudi and Simon; ~ Trudi without Simon.

Breakdown

Long Journey into Light

Castle Murkie

The Trials of Sienna Chambers

The Cellar; ~ and sequel, ~ A Time to be Brave

Elizabeth

A Strange Life (Autobiography of the Author)

Tina G

To Love and Love Not

Coming Out

From the Ashes

Suddenly this Summer

the sequel Prejudice and Sensitivities

Holly

Lost in the Snow

Owning Lili

Loyalty

The Passing of Little Tough Guy

Deliverance

Sasha

The House of Lies and Secrets

Wide Skies by Adrienne May and Brian Watts.

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