This best-seller is getting a review because it uses some of the same ingredients as The Kingdom of the Air. This is a Wilbur Smith collaboration with David Churchill and is instalment #15 in the sweeping historical saga of the Courtneys of Africa, though it is not difficult to pick up the story at this point. Spanning the 1920s and 30s up to the start of WW2, it develops a Kenyan-raised, English-educated protagonist - Saffron Courtney - daughter of Leon Courtney from 2009's'