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kazza27's review
4.0
This is such a unique book it is going to be difficult to write a review that does it justice.
The book centres around Lord Robert Jones, an aristocrat who has polio as a child and is a bit of a disappointment to his parents, Earl and Lady Ashburn. Their friends included Oswald Mosley and the Mitfords. The pair have very questionable views and reek of privilege and want nothing more than Robert to be a better son than they think he is.
The book meanders from Robert’s early life as a lonely child to a chance encounter with a Zebra called Mother, who is originally from Ethiopia and she ends up at London Zoo. The zoo is bombed one night in the Blitz and Mother and her foal Sweetie escapes. Lord Jones decides to do something that he never dreamed of and he commits a crime and takes the Zebra and baby back to Pembrokeshire in Wales to a Cresswell Manor, a property owned by his family.
There was so much that I loved about this book, the writing, the narrator, the Welsh connection and of course Mother and Sweetie. There are so many layers to this book it was like a journey of exploration and it was one I was delighted to take part in.
I absolutely recommend this book!
The book centres around Lord Robert Jones, an aristocrat who has polio as a child and is a bit of a disappointment to his parents, Earl and Lady Ashburn. Their friends included Oswald Mosley and the Mitfords. The pair have very questionable views and reek of privilege and want nothing more than Robert to be a better son than they think he is.
The book meanders from Robert’s early life as a lonely child to a chance encounter with a Zebra called Mother, who is originally from Ethiopia and she ends up at London Zoo. The zoo is bombed one night in the Blitz and Mother and her foal Sweetie escapes. Lord Jones decides to do something that he never dreamed of and he commits a crime and takes the Zebra and baby back to Pembrokeshire in Wales to a Cresswell Manor, a property owned by his family.
There was so much that I loved about this book, the writing, the narrator, the Welsh connection and of course Mother and Sweetie. There are so many layers to this book it was like a journey of exploration and it was one I was delighted to take part in.
I absolutely recommend this book!
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