The Lighted Rooms

Joan McAllistair is about to embark on the 'Trip of a Lifetime' with her daughter Eloise; a journey back to her childhood South Africa and the family homestead in the old Boer Republic of the Orange Free State.
For Eloise, the trip is partly a gift, partly a means of assuaging her guilt at moving her mother into a care home. For Joan, the discovery of her grandmother's journal transports her to the troubled times of the Anglo-Boer war. Eloise, in the meantime, has gambled her business's entire fortune on a promise made by an old lover.
As their stories unravel, Joan takes increasing refuge in the landscape of her mind - in journeys to her own past. She also finds an unexpected friend in a lonely teenager who shares her fascination with history.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Mason
• Publisher: Phoenix
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.11.2008
• EAN: 9780753824634
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-2463-4
• No. of pages: 500
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 177 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Orion Paperbacks
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature