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"annotation": "<p>When Daisy visited her son in prison, Jonathan told her about an old man serving a life sentence for a crime he hadn\u2019t committed. The facts had taken place in Zambia long ago, when it was a British colony, so Daisy started her investigation among ex-colonials living in England. But soon she had to go looking for answers in the African bush.</p>",
"description": "<h4>Haunted by the loss of a childhood world</h4><p>While visiting her son Jonathan in prison, Daisy heard a strange story. He\u2019d befriended an old man who was serving a life sentence for a crime he hadn\u2019t committed. Of course every inmate says that, but Johnny-John believed this man\u2019s protestations of innocence and begged his mother to look into it.</p><p>The facts of the case had taken place in Zambia long ago, when it was a British colony, so Daisy started her investigation among ex-colonials who\u2019d returned to England. However, it soon became clear that the people holding the key to the mystery were still living in Africa, so Daisy took a flight to Lusaka to seek out these witnesses.</p><p>The truth turned out to be as strange as life in the African bush can be. It slowly emerged from a missionary daughter\u2019s rambling memoir about the long-lost world she grew up in. Daisy had to follow a winding trail, but in the end she was mysteriously led to unexpected revelations.</p>",
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