She persuaded me as well, but honestly, it matters not. The story is Beryl's, and the writing is wonderful. And if you can ever manage to get your hands on a copy of the Books on Tape version of this, read by Donada Peters, you are in for a
real treat. (Sadly, I'm not enamored of the currently available readings. Anna Fields has a totally inappropriate American accent, and the other one didn't grab me like the Donada Peters one. ) I actually have the BoT copy here, but it's on cassette and I no longer have a cassette player of any kind.
Errol Trzebinski's book did, I think, place rather more emphasis on the aspects of Beryl's life in East Africa that are not in
West with the Night. In reading
West with the Night you would have absolutely no clue about the promiscuousness that appears to have been the norm of the Europeans in Kenya, but I found Beryl's account none-the-less accurate and compelling.