Starting Again In Egoli

About the Book

This book tells the story of her life in Johannesburg and Durban, her return to acting and writing and her subsequent marriage, another child and a short - lived third marriage. She finally returned to the UK in 1999 and wrote her first Memoirs (”Beyond White Mischief”, The Memoirs of a Tea Planter’s Wife.)

About the Author

Sheila Ward was born in Newcastle - On - Tyne in the thirties, to a Scots Oil Representative father, and a Southern English mother. During the War Sheila was evacuated to Cumbria with her two sisters, she later went to boarding school in the North and in Germany, where her father worked for the Control Commission. When she contracted Polio, her parents promised that if she recovered they would allow her to apply for an audition to RADA. On regaining use of her arm and passing the audition, she was awarded a bursay by Newcastle Education Department. On completion of the two year course Sheila was awarded a Diploma. She then went into repertory theatre, toured the UK and met her ex RAF tea planter husband, living in Uganda, Kenya and finally in South Africa. It was an unhappy marriage, and after three children and a tragic death of a son, she discovered he was conducting an affair. It was the last straw for Sheila, she left him and took the train to Jo’burg. (Egoli)