Laurence Peters

Colony Laurence Peters

Set in the last days of British Colonial Rule in a fictional African country, a compelling saga of violence, lust, deceit and thirst for power. It is the end of an era and an uncertain future awaits. The Gregson's wealthy European landowners of British descent, leaders of white society. Over seventy years their combined efforts and pioneering zeal have transformed virgin bush into lush and profitable farmland. Upon the sprawling estate rests the family's security, its' fortunes, its' very future. It is all they have, all they have ever known, their very lifeblood is in their lands and their African homeland. Must they fight to maintain and retain it..? The Chitemba's, the family of Ritonga's first black Head of State. A widely respected and beloved statesman, dying from a Carcinoma, with the question of succession hanging over the family and the fledgling nation. The unfolding story is an account of the two family's mixed fortunes, mingling fears, triumphs, defeats and pathos, with the agonising pain of a nation's troubled birth.