In her new novel, Mrs. Huxley dramatises a subject which is both topical and timeless - the conflict between two ways of life, the savage and the civilized. The story opens at the time when the Mau Mau rising in Kenya was about to begin. Its chef characters are Sam Gibson, a white settler; Patricia Foxley, an idealistic girl, Kenya-born, who teaches in a mission school; and Gitau, a Kikuyu, also a teacher, one of Mau Mau 'Council of Nine'. The conflict is much more than a straight conflicht between black and white.
As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, the powerful head of a Broadway theater company, has no time for her. She does have one friend-a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael-but onl...
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