Author:Caroline Harvey
In 1899 the lives of many young men are threatened in the bloody battles of the Boer War. Sent down from university, Matthew Paget enlists to go to South Africa as a trooper. He goes in search of adventure, only to find himself caught up in the turmoil of this beautiful but tragically divided country - and in love with a girl on the enemy side.
Will, his cousin, goes out to the war as a career officer. A man filled with the ideals of duty and service, but swindled by a one-time friend and dazzled by a flirtatious beauty, he discovers a life far removed from peace time Victorian England.
Fighting in a cruel conflict thousands of miles from home, both men, and the women they love, find themselves entangled in a drama they could never have foreseen.
A masterpiece
—— Sunday TelegraphAs rich and exciting as Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, but deeper and more disturbing... It begins as a murder mystery but ends in a revelation of deeper mysteries of death and rebirth
—— New York TimesHighly imaginative
—— GuardianA short, charged and imaginative fable-cum-murder-mystery which uses [Fuller's] gift for narrative and for elaborate metaphor to great effect
—— Sunday Times'Absolutely outrageous - a dazzling writer'
—— Jilly Cooper , The Sunday Times'This is a dirty book'
—— The Times Literary Supplement'Fine comic scenes...readers will have trouble putting Sap Rising down, even if their gorge rises'
—— Daily Express'Imagine Barbara Pym writing for Penthouse'
—— Literary Review'He writes so brilliantly'
—— Daniel Farson , Evening Standard'Extremely funny'
—— Time Out'Do not buy this book'
—— Guardian'Frightful pile of garbage'
—— New Statesman
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