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KATE NORTH PHOTOGRAPHY

Dec 10

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The New Girl

My blog is a memoir called The New Girl. It tells of my beginnings in the Zambian bush, born into a line of intrepid explorers. Most of my childhood, however, is spent in the heart of England, an innocent convent girl going on to qualify as a doctor. Newly married, I leave career and chocolate-box cottage to follow my husband to the poverty of Uganda, ravaged by war and AIDS. The story is of how I am thrust into this crazy world, muddling my way as a young doctor and new wife, trying to be the best of both. Armed with dim memories of ancestral derring-do, a little knowledge and a lot of zest, I learn through my adventures in Africa where riches really come from.

Photographing Camels in Giza

About the Author: Kate North

Kate North was born in a bush hospital in Zambia and delivered by a trainee psychiatrist, which explains a lot. When she moved to England age five, wearing shoes was a novel experience. She trained and worked as a rural English GP, specialising in Sports Medicine. Then she followed her husband abroad and suddenly her career did somersaults. She doctored in Uganda and found herself looking down a microscope at weird, tropical, squiggly things; she bounced around as an aerobics instructor in Zimbabwe (and had quite a few babies at the same time); she photographed wildlife in Malaysia, whilst hosting the odd leech or two; and she ran a home-cooking business in Egypt, which amused her friends who know she burns food and can't add up for toffee. She now lives in the heart of England with her husband, three children; and their dog, cat and parrot.