01894cam a2200325 i 4500 421514133 TxAuBib 20200320120000.0 110321s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011011990 9780143119197 0143119192 TxAuBib rda Kohler, Sheila. Love child / Sheila Kohler. New York : Penguin Books, 2011. 235 pages, 10 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes a Penguin readers guide. The compelling story of a forbidden marriage, a baby lost, and a love triangle gone horribly wrong, "Love Child" centers on Bill, a slightly disreputable white woman in Johannesburg who came of age, married, had children, and was widowed, all within the confines of South Africa's English enclave. Hers is a life circumscribed by wealth. Rounds of cocktails muffle feelings of being trapped; South African independence is a distant and unlikely concern. When the book opens, in 1958, the disapproving family lawyer is pressing the widow, Bill (a former tomboy), to make her will. At age 48, languidly considering how best to distribute her fortune, Bill recollects her life, especially her brief elopement with a Jewish man when she was 17. Distant from her sons and tired of supporting her brothers and sisters, Bill looks back and questions the choices that were made for her. 20200320. Young women South Africa Fiction. Illegitimate children Fiction. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction. South Africa History 1909-1961 Fiction. Fiction. http://bookplates.colby.edu/honoree.php?id=59