The Gravity of Sunlight

Expatriates in Africa find themselves in morally ambiguous territory in this atmospheric tale of passion. Prizewinning story writer Rosa Shand makes an impressive debut with a novel lushly set in the tumultuous Africa of the 1970s. Agnes is a dissatisfied wife who has come with her husband, a minister, to teach in Kampala, Uganda. The disintegration of their marriage and Agnes' ecstatic affair is played out against this dangerously unsettled atmosphere, taking the reader on a sensuous and unforgettable journey.