"The story you are about to read takes place in a dying country," Lauren Liebenberg writes by way of introduction to the vibrant, menacing landscape of late 1970s Rhodesia. Two young sisters of Irish descent, Nyree and Cia, live on a remote farm, raised largely by their mother while their father is off fighting the "Terrs" (terrorists). Unaware of what lurks beyond their fences, they're content in their mystical world of spirits from African and Catholic folklore - until the arrival of a "bastard" cousin, at which point, Nyree tells us, "a kind of madness bloomed in our garden of innocence". Written with delicacy and unaffected passion, this is a beautiful elegy to a way of living on the cusp of destruction. A shocking, gorgeous novel.


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