This is the first book in a trilogy which tells the story of a young South African woman who is abused both physically and mentally through two marriages and the threat of losing her children in a court of law. The story begins with her first encounter with sexual abuse as a child in coercion into a marriage to a man that she does not love. The abuses in this union are described in detail, and the readers are provided with a chilling portrait of male brutality and innocence betrayed, and also of a family's protracted denial. Damaged both emotionally and physically and standing at the very...
This is the first book in a trilogy which tells the story of a young South African woman who is abused both physically and mentally through two marria...
In the second book in this widely discussed trilogy, main character Legia, staggers from her disastrous first marriage into hard times. She struggles with very little money to support her two children while gaining a toehold in the banking sector. Her career goes well, and she meets a man who desperately wants the stability of marriage after harrowing experiences and perilous escape from war-torn Angola. She agrees and for a while she finds happiness. But it is short-lived. When her mother-in-law travels from Portugal to live with them, the marriage quickly deteriorates. Her illusions of...
In the second book in this widely discussed trilogy, main character Legia, staggers from her disastrous first marriage into hard times. She struggles ...
