Lively colors, big
gatherings, tribal festivals, parents, grandparents, servants... for Remi,
growing up in Nigeria is a celebration of love and family, eccentricity and
old ritual. She feels confident in her privilege and grounded in the heart of
her culture. But when she turns six, as if by some awful spell, she is sent to
faraway England, to a posh all-girls' boarding school where she will stay for
what seems like a desolate, lonely eternity. There, like the heroine of The
Little Princess, she's left to find her own way - the only black in a school
full of upper-class English girls whose rituals are as foreign to Remi as hers
are to them.
