242 pages

English language

Published 1999 by Penguin Books.

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Focusing on a British police officer in an unnamed West African colony, this novel attempts to show, along with the socially restricted lives of colonists in Africa, the effects of sin on a devout catholic. After sending his unhappy wife to South Africa at her request the officer begins an affair with a young woman, a survivor of a shipwreck and now widowed but is unable to end the relationship when his wife returns even though he feels he is committing a mortal sin.

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Subjects

  • Colonial administrators -- Fiction
  • British -- Africa -- Fiction
  • Married people -- Fiction
  • Catholics -- Fiction
  • Adultery -- Fiction
  • Africa, West -- Fiction