The heart of the matter

Description:

Focusing on a British police officer in an unnamed West African colony, this novel attempts to show, along with the socially restricted lives of colonists in Africa, the effects of sin on a devout catholic. After sending his unhappy wife to South Africa at her request the officer begins an affair with a young woman, a survivor of a shipwreck and now widowed but is unable to end the relationship when his wife returns even though he feels he is committing a mortal sin.

subjects: Fiction,  West africa in fiction,  Colonial administrators in fiction,  Catholics,  Colonial administrators,  Married people,  British in fiction,  Married people in fiction,  British,  Catholics in fiction,  Adultery,  Adultery in fiction,  Great Britain in fiction,  Colonies,  Married people, fiction,  Africa, fiction,  Fiction, christian, general,  Fiction, psychological,  Large type books,  Marriage, fiction,  Fiction, religious,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, general,  Marriage,  British colonies,  Police

Places: Africa,  West Africa,  Great Britain

Times: 1940's