Mrs. Roche is a fascinating woman. She is Polish by birth, Janina Jurkowska. As a young girl, the Bolsheviks exiled her along with thousands of compatriots to Siberia. Later, she ended up in Iran and India before sailing to Tanzania and then Kenya. Her brother joined the British colonial police and was killed by Mau Mau rebels in the 1950s. Her husband, half Irish and half Indian, died twenty years ago, and their children now live in Canada.
Janin
Klemenčič (to be continued)
