Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years. But now he feels more and more alienated and longs to return to South Africa, where he was born. From Whitbread Novel Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Justin Cartwright comes a brilliant novel about South Africa, its beautiful, superbly evoked landscape, its violent past and its uncertain future. The author has been compared to Philip Roth, Ian McEwan and William Boyd.