Great Comfort

The sequel to Comfort Herself with the quest for identity developed further as Comfort returns to Ghana two years on. That too is changing, caught between old and new ways just as Comfort is caught as before between the cultures of her mother and father, her two grandmothers, and now between being a child and an adult. Uncertainty gives way to strength. 'I am a chameleon,' she says at the end, revelling in the richness and variety of her life and her ability to adapt. Worth buying in bulk, it has a lot to teach and is wise and witty about cultural and historical differences.