When the diffident and ineffectual Derek Mann loses his teaching
job in a girls' grammar school in England and drifts from one
temporary post to another, one of his precocious pupils gives him
her grandfather's wartime diary with a mission to return to
Apartheid South Africa and find the opal mine she believes to be
her rightful inheritance. Intrigue and violence bedevil the quest
that ends in a desert under the Southern Cross. The wry, often
laconic style gives full reign to the characters' latent sexuality.
While the novel takes the form of a thriller, it is also a love
story. The plot pivots round the war-diary of a man whose bomber
was shot down in action in Egypt in 1941. The man had invested
money in partnership with his wartime friend in an opal mine in a
place designated by the letters 'C.P.' in 'S.A.'. His
granddaughter's search for the mine affects her own as well as her
former teacher's destiny.
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