Marilyn Heward Mills
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Marilyn Heward Mills
Matilda Quartey is fourteen years old when sophisticated black Gold Coast lawyer Robert Bannerman sets eyes on her and resolves to take her as his second wife. For Julie, his first wife, this is a colossal slap in the face that she is not willing to tolerate. For Matilda it is an abrupt—and cruel—end to childhood. On the other side of the colony, Audrey Turton, wife of the new ADC to the Governor, is appalled by her new life in Africa, where the reality has borne no relation to her dream of glamour and adventure. Angry, flirtatious and reckless, she drinks away the days, dreaming of home leave and waiting for something to happen.
