内容简介：
This is a story based in southern Rhodesia in the 1950s. Young men, mainly the sons of the aristocracy who had misbehaved, were sent to the colonies by their families with the intention of amaking men of them.a Jack is one of these aristocratic sons who is sent to Rhodesia to work by his father. Jack meets a naive farmeras daughter named Hetty. He likes what he sees and takes her to his home in England where his father, the Earl, rapes her. She is too afraid to tell what has happened and tries to overcome the disgrace of it. She becomes pregnant with the Earlas child, but Jack is unaware of this and marries Hetty. Jack, though he is married, cannot contain his womanizing with dire results. Though this is written as a fiction, parts are based on the experiences of the authoras husbandas work in the British South Africa Police. The author was a farmeras daughter so many of the scenes in the book are drawn from her knowledge of farming methods in Rhodesia.