The ghosts of Happy Valley

By Juliet Barnes

Subjects: Kenya, history, British, Kenya, social life and customs, History, Personal narratives

Description: 'Happy Valley' was the name given to the region of Kenya's Highlands where a community of hedonistic white expatriates settled between the wars. Juliet Barnes has explored Happy Valley in a remarkable and indefatigable archaeological quest to find the homes and haunts of this extraordinary and vanished set of people.