Following the death of her husband Terry, Mrs Allen takes the
vacant post of Matron at the Settlement of St Joseph, founded in
the nineteenth century by his grandfather Timothy Xavier Allen to
bring to the African Christianity medical attention and elementary
education.
Allen has been Terry's inspiration throughout his life, though
after the government took control he kept away from St Joseph's for
twenty years.
Mrs Allen can understand the uncouthness of Mr Schwartz, the
Government Superintendent, but the coldness of Johannes Simbele,
the 'African teacher', is more than reserve. As for Dr Redman,
though he is clearly good at his job, his manner is flippant, and
her suspicions about his relations with Nurse Peters are decisively
confirmed.
In this second novel, C. J. Driver, author of Elegy for a
Revolutionary, presents a compelling and compassionate study of
alturistic idealism overwhelmed by forces it cannot comprehend.
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