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Wilbur Smith seems naive about women throughout, on their objectives, intentions, musing and priorities. Rather than taking the opportunity to make Isabella a young woman who embodies strength from her mother and grandmother, and intelligence, and independence, instead she giddily flaunts in front of Ramon, even having sex with him within weeks of her giving birth to her son Nicky. Hardly, Mr Smith

All these beautiful and interesting sounds filled my heart with an unwonted expectation; and it appeared to me that, once past this range which I was mounting, I should descend into the garden of the world. Nor was I deceived, for I was now done with rains and winds and a bleak country. The first part of my journey ended here; and this was like an induction of sweet sounds into the other and more beautiful.

“The bed was made, the room was fit,
By punctual eve the stars were lit;
The air was still, the water ran;
No need there was for maid or man,
When we put up, my ass and I,
At God’s green caravanserai.
OLD PLAY.”