The Kings In The Kasbah

By Maggi Smith

Maggi Smith was born in Dagenham, Essex from where she spent the first twenty odd years of her life trying to escape. She eventually ended up in Cornwall where she kept a goat called Nancy, learned how to make clotted cream, ate too much of it and got into making wine from anything she could find in the surrounding fields and hedgerows.After almost ten years in the wild and woolly west country, along with her husband and 14 year old son, she packed up her belongings in a red Bedford van and with little money but plenty of enthusiasm headed south with no definite plan in mind. Only stopping upon reaching southern Portugal, where Europe ends and the Atlantic Ocean begins, Maggi and her husband purchased a plot of land with nothing on it except for some ancient olive, fig and almond trees. They set about building their home, although, in truth, Maggi mainly made the tea while her husband did the actual graft.Maggi loves travelling to foreign places but is equally content to be still, and to this end, for an hour each morning, she sits in quiet meditation which usually helps to set a positive course for the day ahead. She spends a good bit of time working in her garden but is certainly not averse to sitting in the sun and watching the grass grow. She likes the cold, clean smell of the north wind as well as the hot, spicy scent of that from the south-east, adores the climate of southern Portugal but welcomes the first rains that follow the long, dusty summers.She enjoys reading any book that has the potential to transport her to foreign climes and cultures and although for much of her life her writing has been primarily for her own entertainment, it was the humour and pure simplicity of Chris Stewart's "Driving over Lemons" series that finally inspired her to sit down and create "The Kings in the Kasbah".To contact Maggi Smith please email: kingsinthekasbah@sapo.pt

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506159915
• ISBN13: 9781506159911
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.0" x 5.1"