Published privately

Softcover in very good condition. 

"An epic journey, beginning 11 November 1965 when Prime Minister Ian Smith cuts the Rhodesian state's ties with Britain. Ending with the transition to majority rule accompanied by bitter struggles and attacks on those who continue to live on family farms. Follow the lives of the Weavers, an eccentric family gripped by the tensions and fears in the land. The small details of family life -- its joys, its strains -- are played out against the background of the rumbling civil war in Rhodesia Grandpa tunes in to the news broadcasts, the reporting of unfolding events in Rhodesia, raising his ire. Dawn, his youngest daughter takes a contrary stance on political matters, but her position is somewhat constrained by her marriage to Syd, a member of the BSAP. The Weavers lives intersect with those of Mudala Amos, his son Wednesday, Beverley's house-servant Nksingphile and the disliked Phineas -- Rhodesians whose lives are defined by the social and economic life in Rhodesia. Mudala Amos has a domestic role in the Weaver household, extending to the family's fishing and hunting forays. Humour, drama and romantic nostalgia, drawn from bar banter in social circles and from the way in which lives are affected by the call on citizens to defend their government's position, will keep you turning the pages of this novel"--Author's web page.