Fate and Tomorrow Unknown - 2003

London: Coronet. Very Good. 2003. Reprint; Fourth Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light reading creases and shelf wear, slight foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Fourth printing of Coronet mass market edition, 2003. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design by Emma Murray with images courtesy of Corbis UK and Image Store. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 416 pages; The only certainty in Nessa O'Grady's life, as she celebrates her twenty-third birthday in March,1902, is that she will soon marry her childhood sweetheart, Theo Howard. But when her father commits suicide everything changes. The wedding is off and the family thrown into turmoil. Seeing that her native Ireland holds no future for her, Nessa accepts a proposal from Thomas Cooper, a wealthy trader from the Congo Free State, and travels with him to the Belgian colony in West Africa. Once there however, Nessa discovers that her husband's wealth is based on severe cruelty and exploitation,… Leer más

Hodder & Stoughton. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.