The heart of the matter
About this book
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.
Subjects
- adultery
- adultery in fiction
- africa, fiction
- british
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- british colonies
- british in fiction
- catholics
- catholics in fiction
- colonial administrators
- colonial administrators in fiction
- colonies
- fiction
- fiction, christian, general
- fiction, general
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, religious
- great britain in fiction
- large type books
- marriage
- marriage, fiction
- married people
- married people, fiction
- married people in fiction
- police
- west africa in fiction