The Tin Heart Gold Mine

✍ Scribed by Hartley, Ruth

• Book ID: 110493007
• Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 191 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781785898143

✦ Synopsis

Heart of Darkness and Lust for Life collide as the Cold War in Africa gets hot. Lara, the artist, loves both Oscar, a suave, older entrepreneur, and owner of the Tin Heart Gold Mine and Tim, a journalist seeking truth. This is a dramatic story, about vibrant, intriguing characters passionate about art, love, the making of money and the African bush, whose lives become entangled in war and politics. How well do we ever know the people we love? The Tin Heart Gold Mine opens in 1985 with Lara and Oscar, lovers in the wilderness of Chambeshi, surrounded by beauty and hidden danger. It immediately switches to London in 1988, where Lara's past love for Oscar is threatening her marriage to Tim. He leaves for Africa on a journalistic assignment, furious because Oscar has left Lara valuable paintings. It is possible that Oscar, not Tim, may be the father of Lara's son – but Tim wants to be his sole provider. A traumatized Lara starts therapy. How has her passionate commitment to art...