This memoir describes the marriage of Ellen Phipps and her life. She and her daughter, Anne, lived in Johannesburg, South Africa in a different world from ours today.
Learn how the past shaped, even forced, the present. Gayle Frances Larkin leaps over the tangle to reveal the threat and danger that shaped the two protagonists, Ellen, and Anne. In a heart-rending tale of sorrow and confusion she infuses humour and heartache.
A lawyer's death turns their normality into a nightmare. What was the truth? Would they ever know? And, worst of all, how had this been possible? Did she ever find her 'teaspoon of hope'?
