Between Two Rivers

Tina Beattie

Rhodesia is sleep-walking walking towards it’s devastating civil war. Three women became entangled in that war and in relationships that harbour the seeds of tragedy. With great sensitivity and insight, Tina Beattie tells a haunting story of love and war that will long linger in mind. ( Kay Powell, author of the Then a Wind Blew)

Msasa trees provide the dappled shade for Jenny’s tea party. April sunshine dribbled through the leaves onto suntanned arms. The frangipanis were in bloom….’

This is the scene that greets Scottish doctor Morag soon after her arrival in Salisbury in the 1950s. Jenny is an English wife and mother trapped in an increasingly violent marriage and secretly in love with another man. Soon, Beatrice will come to work as Jenny’s maid and nanny to her children . Over the next twenty years these three women will form deep bonds of affection, but can their loyalty to one another survive as the façade of white suburban life is shattered by war?

The story is a fascinating weave of black and white characters. I loved it despite scenes that deeply disturbed, me having been through those times. Tina Beattie has captured in the essence of the time with precise and knowledgeable detail. (Angus Shaw, Zimbabwean writer and war correspondent)

ISBN: 978-1-77922-414-9