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Without a Conscience
A young physical therapist living in the cold and bleak of northern Canada longs for a new life, and so she goes to work in South Africa. The novel centres around the new life Jayne finds. At first her life centres around the white and black hospitals where she works and her new boyfriend. But soon she is sucked into the revolutionary ferment of Soweto in the 1970s and the brutal reactionary violence of the apartheid regime. She has escaped boredom - but she is in a frightening world, not knowing friend from enemy.
180 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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May 15, 2014
This story is set in South Africa between 1976 and 1990 when apartheid was introduced.
The heroine of the story, Jayne Franklin, is a physical therapist who applies for a job in South Africa following her desire to leave her home town in Canada. She is met with tough times as she does not see whites as superior to blacks- and her stand causes her to fall into the arms of a charmer, Andrew, who with time she finds herself wondering if he is to be trusted or not.
The flows of the story was good, and it's written in simple English and at times it did make Jayne seem as either too stuck up or shallow in the eyes of the other characters. I liked how she talked because she asked the questions and made observations that her white and black friends did not want to speak up about for fear of imprisonment by the ruling regime.
I did not like her relationship with Andrew because he was too needy and controlling. I wished that she dated someone else- but then that would alter the story.
I liked reading this book. It's short, written in simple English and it brings to light apartheid and how much South Africans suffered because of it. A light, but good read.
The heroine of the story, Jayne Franklin, is a physical therapist who applies for a job in South Africa following her desire to leave her home town in Canada. She is met with tough times as she does not see whites as superior to blacks- and her stand causes her to fall into the arms of a charmer, Andrew, who with time she finds herself wondering if he is to be trusted or not.
The flows of the story was good, and it's written in simple English and at times it did make Jayne seem as either too stuck up or shallow in the eyes of the other characters. I liked how she talked because she asked the questions and made observations that her white and black friends did not want to speak up about for fear of imprisonment by the ruling regime.
I did not like her relationship with Andrew because he was too needy and controlling. I wished that she dated someone else- but then that would alter the story.
I liked reading this book. It's short, written in simple English and it brings to light apartheid and how much South Africans suffered because of it. A light, but good read.
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