At nine, Poppy Destin is a hungry, furious drudge in a relative’s household in South Africa, washing greasy plates and slapping her cousins back. The novel follows her through a fierce, lonely girlhood to young womanhood, as she escapes into writing, struggles to support herself, and is drawn into a passionate and costly love.
A vivid, emotional South African romance of 1910 with an unusually independent heroine. Download the free EPUB.