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.
Genres
- Fiction
- West africa in fiction
- Colonial administrators in fiction
- Catholics
- Colonial administrators
- Married people
- British in fiction
- Married people in fiction
- British
- Catholics in fiction
- Adultery
- Adultery in fiction
- Great Britain in fiction
- Colonies
- Married people, fiction
- Africa, fiction
- Fiction, christian, general
- Fiction, psychological
- Large type books
- Marriage, fiction
- Fiction, religious
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, general
- Marriage
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