Maggie McCune was born in India during the last vestiges of the British Raj. Many years later her eldest daughter, Emma, fell in love with Africa and in 1991 she married a charismatic Sudanese war lord. Emma worked with children made homeless by the bitter conflict in southern Sudan, surviving great personal danger in the civil war until her tragic death in a car accident in Nairobi just two years later.
TILL THE SUN GROWS COLD weaves together the extraordinary stories of Maggie and Emma McCune: the bereaved mother trying to make sense of her daugther's brief, colourful existence through Emma's own writing and diaries and discovering almost as much about herself as she revisits their shared and separate pasts.
Maggie McCune's career, apart from bringing up four children single-handedly, has included a variety of jobs in Yorkshire and where she now lives, near Guildford in the south of England.