The Most Wonderful Years

Readers are not only taken aback in time and place; this script of fiction is created from real life events. It is narrated in the most hilarious, fascinating and inspirational manner, to amuse both the young and the adult audience. Youngsters growing up within Zimbabwes countryside, a rural community that was dominated by traditional small-scale farming, where parents intended to make better the future of their offspring. The most fulfilling way of life, yet very basic and simple. It was an existence with not much interference from modern day technology. The years when social media was nonexistent. For most, it was a livelihood of barely getting by, yet never short of fulfilment. There is a neighbouring modern settlement, for which its influence on the villagers at the time, could never be denied. A bus ride away is Harare, the capital city, of which some have close connections with. Leah, is the youngest of the siblings, with several brothers and sisters before her, was she to simply follow a very distinctive path. Somewhat aware of the powerful forces in their upbringing. How would the youngsters mould their own beings, within a network of relationships, values and expectations alongside the forbidden? Central to a community influenced by the patriarchal and customary conservative conforms. Things do happen, and when they do, how does one move on? Decades later, Leah, is seen again fully established within the diaspora-London. Where her daughter Ciara is from another era.