"Set in Rhodesia, it tells the story od Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush. Trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny brick and iron house, Mary, lonely and frightened, turns to Moses, the black cook, for kindness and understanding."

Doris Lessing conjures up in words a claustrophic picture of heat, loneliness and frutration that becomes the setting for events that are bound from the outset to end in tragedy.

A "classic" and it deserves to be.

The cover of my book is different to that shown.

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Posted to Little-Nel

Thankyou Annodyne, for this unexpected extra! This looks fascinating too.

Left with my Aunt in Israel

This was definately an interesting read, and insight into ethnic, class, gender and power relations in Rhodesia.