The fever tree
By: Jennifer McVeigh
Edition: Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780425264911
Subjects: British; Women; Diamond mines and mining; Smallpox; Fiction
Description: South Africa, 1880. Frances Irvine, destitute in the wake of her father's sudden death, is forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Cape. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men, leading her into the dark heart of the diamond mines. Torn between passion and integrity, she makes a choice that has devastating consequences.