Penguin, London, 1994, 1st pr thus.  ISBN 0-14-017935-6.  MMPB, 265 pages.  Unread remaindered copy with light edge and cover wear, faint front corner creases; outer page block tanned.  Interior clean and unmarked with moderately tanned pages.  ‘She no longer asks, she knows:  Africa does not want white children.  For Araminta Rossouw, Africa is a prison, and she will sell her soul to buy her freedom.  Araminta is working as an estate agent in a small country town when a middle-aged couple, desperate to move from Zimbabwe to South Africa, put six uncut diamonds into her hand.  They need only R15,000; if she can sell them she can keep the rest as profit …  All Araminta wants is to save enough money to escape her Afrikaans homeland and build a new life elsewhere.  Her life already marked by scandal and disappointment, Araminta is easily lured into  the darkness of the illegal world of diamond-trading – a world that threatens to destroy her.’  (from rear wrap)