The Fever Tree
Author: McVeigh, Jennifer
ISBN: 9780670920907
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 08 Feb 2013
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
A poignant and powerful love story set in the diamond mining capital of 1880s South Africa
1880, South Africa - a land torn apart by greed...
Frances Irvine, left penniless after her father's sudden death, is forced to emigrate to the Cape. In this barren country, she meets two very different men - one driven by ambition, the other by ideals. When a smallpox outbreak sends her to the diamond mines, she is drawn into a ruthless world of greed and exploitation, of human lives crushed in the scramble for power. But here - at last - she sees her path to happiness. Torn between passion and integrity, she makes a choice that has devastating consequences...
ISBN: 9780670920907
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 08 Feb 2013
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
A poignant and powerful love story set in the diamond mining capital of 1880s South Africa
1880, South Africa - a land torn apart by greed...
Frances Irvine, left penniless after her father's sudden death, is forced to emigrate to the Cape. In this barren country, she meets two very different men - one driven by ambition, the other by ideals. When a smallpox outbreak sends her to the diamond mines, she is drawn into a ruthless world of greed and exploitation, of human lives crushed in the scramble for power. But here - at last - she sees her path to happiness. Torn between passion and integrity, she makes a choice that has devastating consequences...
