A Life in Postcards

'Many people will remember Melosina's voice from Sunday Miscellany', where these pieces were first broadcast, or have read them in Irishwoman's Diary' in The Irish Times. Though all of her writing conveys her distinctive slant on things, relatively few of her essays were directly concerned with her personal life. Several of these are collected here, including a moving account of her first experience of the cancer from which she eventually died in 2011. Growing up as a teaplanter's daughter in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), evacuated with her mother to Africa during the war, Melosina Lenox-Conyngham acquired early on... Sonra