Hilary Munro
Hilary Munro was born in Dar-es-Salaam,Tanganyika (now Tanzania) where her father Geoffrey Gabb worked for the British Colonial Service. After Independence in 1962 he stayed on and became the Secretary to President Julius Nyerere, as part of the transition process. Her mother Penny was daughter to Emily May Sutton, the subject of this memoir. In her adult life, Hilary lived in Europe, South East Asia, China, Central Asia, North Africa and Iraqi Kurdistan. She edited life-style magazines in Kazakhstan and Egypt and later published articles in British and American periodicals on current affairs, travel, archaeology and history. In China in the '90s she co-founded an International School, which became one of the most successful educators in East Asia. She now lives in Edinburgh with her husband Colin.
