Looking for Evelyn

Chrissie Docherty returns to the southern Africa of her childhood and tracks down Evelyn Fielding the woman at the centre of an explosive scandal involving a traditional colonial officer and a gifted black African artist. Together the two women uncover the secrets that shattered a remote expatriate outpost in the Zambian bush in the 1970s. Switching deftly between today and the recent past and set against a background of tense post-colonial race relations political turmoil and witchcraft 'Looking for Evelyn' powerfully evokes the very special colours sounds and smells of Africa.