Nessa O'Grady, only daughter of an old, landowning Catholic family, is set to marry her childhood sweetheart when her father commits suicide; the wedding is off and the family thrown into turmoil. Seeing that her native land holds no future for her, Nessa accepts a proposal from Thomas Cooper, a wealthy adventurer from the Congo Free State, and travels with him to Africa. There she finds her new husband is a brute - not only to her, but to the Congolese and, sickened, she flees under the protection of black American journalist David Addison. As he is married, she returns, pregnant, to her native Ireland, divorces Cooper and decides to go to America, where she feels her half-caste daughter will have a better life. We last see them as they are about to board the Titanic...
- ISBN10 0340771356
- ISBN13 9780340771358
- Publish Date 31 December 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Hodder & Stoughton
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 416
- Language English