On the night a mysterious singer called Al’mah triumphs at Covent Garden, three people in the audience are watching one another instead: Rudyard Byng, a rough-hewn South African mining magnate, the lovely Jasmine he will marry, and the diplomat Ian Stafford. Love, calumny and the Boer War carry them from London society to the veld.
A large, dramatic Edwardian novel of politics and passion from a best-selling Canadian-born writer. Download the free EPUB.