A biography of the renowned writer, broadcaster, conservationist and chronicler of colonial Kenya, Elspeth Huxley, who achieved worldwide fame with her memoir The Flame Trees of Thika (1959). Elspeth married Gervas, a grandson of Thomas Huxley and cousin to Julian and Aldous Huxley, whom she knew well. The author, Christine Nicholls, had access to all her letters and papers, and is familiar with many of the people and places in the book.