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Out in the Noonday Sun, My Kenya, by Elspeth Huxley (Viking, 262 pp., $18.95)

It is 1932. Elspeth and Gervas Huxley are newly married and out of work. Gervas takes the only job he can find, in the tea industry in Ceylon, and 26-year-old Elspeth wangles a commission in Kenya to write the biography of the late Lord Delamere. It is eight years since she has set foot in the land where she spent her childhood with her parents, the impractical dreamer Jos Grant and his down-to-earth and thoroughly admirable wife, Nellie (amusingly described in Mrs. Huxley’s The Thorn Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard).

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Out in the Noonday Sun, My Kenya, by Elspeth Huxley (Viking, 262 pp., $18.95)

It is 1932. Elspeth and Gervas Huxley are newly married and out of work. Gervas takes the only job he can find, in the tea industry in Ceylon, and 26-year-old Elspeth wangles a commission in Kenya to write the biography of the late Lord Delamere. It is eight years since she has set foot in the land where she spent her childhood with her parents, the impractical dreamer Jos Grant and his down-to-earth and thoroughly admirable wife, Nellie (amusingly described in Mrs. Huxley’s The Thorn Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard).