Hardcover, 412 pages
English language
Published July 2, 2007 by Thorndike Press.
The Heart of the Matter
4 stars
(1 review)
Focusing on a British police officer in an unnamed West African colony, this novel attempts to show, along with the socially restricted lives of colonists in Africa, the effects of sin on a devout catholic. After sending his unhappy wife to South Africa at her request the officer begins an affair with a young woman, a survivor of a shipwreck and now widowed but is unable to end the relationship when his wife returns even though he feels he is committing a mortal sin.
Subjects
- Marriage
- Large type books
- Colonial administrators
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Fiction
- Classics
- General
- Africa
- British