Newbury author Paula Sheridan’s Finding Penrose recounts the true-life tale of a man’s journey from enslaved boy to goat herder to hero. It was while growing up in South Africa that Paula first encountered Penrose’s remarkable story. “Let yourself be whisked away to a stifling hot African hut,” says Paula. “Your destination… Basutoland, in the heart of Southern Africa. “The sun’s burning down on your head, there’s barely a breath of wind sneaking between the trees, yet, only meters away, elephant hunters are stalking the arid Savannah close to a little boy’s mud hut. Scared? Well that’s how …
