Fields of Fire and Ice - Softcover

Duffield, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1982980222 ISBN 13: 9781982980221

Publisher: Independently published, 2016

Synopsis

When family secrets are revealed they can change your life forever.Anne holds the key to a family secret that spans two generations of her family history. And she doesn't even know it! The secret has been guarded by her uncle who has suddenly disappeared. Anne must decipher the clues that her Uncle has left for her when she moves into his vacant house. But there is someone else who knows about the secret, putting her life and her family in danger. Who can she trust? The English and the Afrikaans have always despised each other, but Anne's great grandfather, a British Soldier, married a Boer women and changes the lives of his family in a country where the land the has always been divided. When Anne finds his diary amongst her cookbooks, she begins to read about his time in the Boer War and she slowly uncovers the truth about her family and the farm that they owned.The new government in South Africa is seeking to reclaim land and redistribute it to the less fortunate. How will Anne protect her family inheritance when land has become far more precious than diamonds.When an old flame, Mynhart appears back in her life after jilting her years ago. She must choose whether to open her heart again to a Afrikaans man whose family despised her for being English. But can he be trusted? How do you protect your family when you don’t know who the enemy is? You trust the man that protected you as a child when your family was attacked by the Secret Police during the Apartheid Regime.

About this title

About the Author

Angela Duffield is an author living in South Africa. Her childhood was spent playing in a treehouse in her grandparents backyard and reading the old classics. By the age of 16 she had read the Iliad and the Oddessy and any book that would expand her personal knowlege and self-development.

She is passionate about storytelling and loves to still visit the local library to do research. Her love of nature and animals has lead her to experiencing walking with elephants, feeding giraffes, playing with lions and tiger cubs and sitting on a beach with Cape Penguins. 

She has travelled through the Namib desert to see the flamingos at Walvisbay and ride the sand dunes at Swakopmund in Namibia.

Angela is an award winning artist. She turned her talents to illustrating and is now a published children's book illustrator. 

She manages her freelance graphic and website business expanding on her experience working for newspapers and magazines. 

Angela loves telling stories based on South Africa and her first novel, Fields of Fire and Ice, was written whilst researching her own family history.

She is currently working on her second novel.

From the Back Cover

Anne holds the key to a family secret that spans two generations, but she doesn't even know it!
Since childhood she has had an anonymous man as her protector. He hides in the shadows from the Apartheid Regime because of the color of his skin. But when Anne's uncle is hijacked and disappears it is up to Anne to find him with the help of her protector.
When Anne finds her great grand fathers diary amongst her cookbooks she discovers a love story between a British soldier and a Boer woman that will reveal a long kept secret and a lost farm in South Africa that has the richest deposits of diamonds on it.
She is not the only one searching for it. A powerful seperatist group are desperately wanting to own the mineral rights to the hidden diamond deposits. They want to create their own Volkstad. A seperate country within South Africa.
Is South Africa really at peace or is their a powerful anonymous group trying to unsettle the new government?
Anne is the key to unlocking the mystery behind the true identity of her family.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1982980222
• ISBN 13: 9781982980221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262