Even more than the spectacular film made on the book, this book grips one - and that is saying quite a lot.
This writer wrote about her own life in this one, the part she went out and lived in Africa, and one is filled with admiration for her courage, her growth and her perception, and her ever standing for what is just and right, which she did often at the risk of loss of status (which those days - and even now - is often be-all and end-all for most people - they consider what is necessary to be perceived as socially as the most important factor in decisions).
Karen went against much of conventions including those of colonial masters society then, and this woman again and again broke out against conventions and well trodden paths like a tremendous torrent bursting out through rock to find its way over more rocks.
