A family and its farm in decline in South Africa; four funerals and a promise broken repeatedly. Finely conceived and brilliantly executed.
The Promise
(author)
£16.99
Edition:Hardback978178474406917/06/2021
Categories: 05. Spring Books 2021: Fiction, Fiction, Spring Books 2021
Tags: c 2000 to c 2009, Family life fiction, Generational sagas, Historical fiction, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Republic of South Africa
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