My Mother's Lovers: A Novel

by Christopher Hope (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $3.50

  My Mother's Lovers draws on the memories of a son who recalls and immortalises his mother - a glamorous safari pilot and the daughter of a prodigious family, part Irish, part English, part African. The men she brings into the house refract the story of the whites in South Africa, whose sorry history runs from the Boer War, through both World Wars, to the loss of power in the 1990s. My Mother's Lovers is Hope's most ambitious work, yet and the novel he has been waiting to write for many years. Peopled with unforgettable characters who endure the most incredible and appalling events, it is an epic tragicomedy, as dark as the European romancing of Africa.

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  Paperback
  2007

  $4.95

  Once it seemed to Kathleen Healey that Africa was empty and all of it belonged to her. An aviator, big-game hunter and knitting devotee, she would land her plane wherever and whenever she chose. She was free with her favours too, and her multitude of lovers came from all over the continent. When Kathleen dies, her only son Alexander returns to Johannesburg to carry out her final wishes. But then he meets Cindy September, and Alexander must confront the final part of his mother's legacy - his capacity for love.