The Missionary's Wife by Tim Jeal

Published by Little Brown and Company, 1997, hardcover, 345 pages, condition: as new.

Jilted by a local aristocrat and bereft following the death of her mother, Clara meets and falls in love with a visiting missionary. They marry and she joins him in Africa in an enclave of huts, dust and flies. There, as tribal warfare spills into the camp, Clara begins a heart-wrenching discovery.