Rhodesia, 1972. Tessa Harmand is nine-years-old when a humiliating
experience forever alters her naive perception of the society in
which she lives, forcing her to question her own attitude to her
black compatriots - an attitude she's inherited from her elders.
Nathan Owen is twelve-years-old, dark haired and inscrutable. To
Tessa, he is a dead-pan, distant ghost flitting into view and then
dissolving in a blink... but an odd conversation with him only
serves to heighten Tessa's new and unwelcome awareness of the
political uncertainty. As the first whisperings of the armed
struggle that will transform Rhodesia into Zimbabwe gradually
invade Tessa's daily life, the adults in her world remain oddly
dismissive, even as civil war becomes an inescapable reality. Tessa
comes to realise that white dominated Africa belongs in the past;
her optimism for the inevitable political change is shocking to a
generation desperate to preserve what it has. But amid the chaos of
a country fighting itself to reforge its identity, can Tessa hold
on to what's most important?
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