Till the Sun Grows Cold is Maggie, Emma's mother's spiritual journey from India, where she was born, to England and Africa in search of her own past and its resonances with her daughter's extraordinary life. It is s personal odyssey: an attempt to make sense of her daughter's brief existence from an unconventional middle-England childhood - in which she witnessed the break-up of her parent's marriage and her father's bankruptcy and suicide - to her dangerous life on one side of Sudan's civil war, a life in which Emma recorded in diaries that time.