Patricia Friedberg

Patricia Friedberg was born and raised in London during World War II. She attended the Henrietta Barnett School and later the London School of Journalism. Her marriage to a South African doctor took her to what was then The Rhodesias - now Zambia and Zimbabwe. She is the mother of four children, each born in a different country, and grandmother of eight. She is also the author of Letters from Wankie: A Place in Colonial Africa, which chronicles her first two years as a newlywed, married to the colliery doctor, in the coal mining town of Wankie in remote northwestern South Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she was hired to be Clerk of the Court, simply because she could type. A charming book based on her hundreds of letters home to London.