In a Foreign Country

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae Anne yn mynd i Ghana ar ymweliad chwe mis am y tro cyntaf. Yma mae ei thad yn gweithio ers iddi fod yn ferch fach, ond dydyn nhw ddim yn adnabod ei gilydd yn dda. Wrth iddi ddechrau teimlo nad yw'r trigolion yn awyddus i Anne fod yn eu plith, mae damwain ofnadwy yn newid popeth.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Anne is in Ghana for the first time - her father has been working up country since she was a small child and they no longer really know each other. A few days into Anne's stay, the houseboy Moses returns from a trip and Anne is left with the feeling that she's surplus to requirements. Then a terrible accident changes everything ...

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Hilary Shepherd grew up in suburban Hertfordshire with ambitions for the rural life which were fuelled by a spell in Ghana. Three years later, after two years in the Sudan working for the U.N, she and her husband bought a smallholding in the Welsh borders where they farmed for ten years. Since then, Hilary has advised farmers who wished to go into organic conversion and been renovating a Welsh farmhouse and a derelict cottage in a beautiful Spanish village.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

• Echoes of Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds • A coming of age novel that will appeal to women of all ages • Powerful evocation of expat life in an African township • Hilary Shepherd lived and worked in Ghana Is love ever enough? Anne is in Ghana for the first time. Her father, Dick, has been working up country for an NGO since his daughter was a small child. They no longer really know each other. A few days into Anne’s six-month stay, the houseboy Moses returns from a trip and Anne is left with a growing feeling that she’s surplus to requirements. Her father is grumpy and distant, Moses distinctly put out at her continued presence. She finds respite teaching at a local Catholic school. Then out of the blue a terrible accident changes everything. Anne’s close relationship with Michael, a priest who’s already in trouble with his superiors in the Church, reaches a tipping point that endangers them both. With her father dead and Michael sent home in disgrace, Anne is forced to confront her future and her failings in the brutal glare of the African sun.