Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. General Fiction
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Setting off from his impoverished homeland at Ndotasheni, Natal, the Revd Stephen Kumalo heads for Johannesburg to search for his sister Gertrude and his delinquent son, Absalom. He finds that Gertrude has turned to prostitution and Absalom has murdered the son of a white farmer, James Jarvis. Absalom is convicted and condemned to death, leaving his father to return home with his pregnant wife and Gertrude’s baby son. The novel however, ends on a positive note with Jarvis’s determination to rise above tragedy by helping the poor black community.Latest Additions
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