The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner Paperback Book 9780140431841

Two cousins grow up in the 1860s on a lonely farm in the thirsty mountain veld Em is fat sweet and contented a born housewife Lyndall clever restless beautiful and doomed Their childhood is disrupted by a bombastic Irishman Bonaparte Blenkins who gains uncanny influence over the girls gross stupid stepmother