Sarah Manyika, mother to a CSB student, has just published her first novel: "In Dependence."

This item is a "count me in" book discussion for 15 people. Each person will receive a copy of the book just after the Gala. You will have 6 weeks to read it and will join Sarah for a discussion on the book.

The discussion will take place on Tuesday, June 16 from 7-9PM at the home of CSB parent Nancy Payne (in the Marina).

Book Description
It is the early-sixties when a young Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship at Oxford University. In this city of dreaming spires, he finds himself among a generation high on visions of a new and better world. The whole world seems ablaze with change: independence at home, the Civil Rights movement and the first tremors of cultural and sexual revolutions. It is then that Tayo meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of an ex-colonial officer. "In Dependence" is Tayo and Vanessa's story of a brave but bittersweet love affair. It is the story of two people struggling to find themselves and each other a story of passion and idealism, courage and betrayal, and the universal desire to fall, madly, deeply, in love.