Motohuma the Firehead

Motohuma the Firehead is a story of a white child growing up in a black country (Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe), as it goes through traumatic changes and a savage bush war. Three love stories across two generations are intertwined, but perhaps the greatest love story of all is the one the author tells about the country she's lost. Poppet, the heroine, knows there is a dark secret about her birth, but she never suspects the truth! She dreams of a house fire, and lives with the unexplained scars on her body. Her real name is never used, and she does not look like anyone else in her family. Something happened to her long ago, in the years before her memory was formed, but nobody on the remote farm where she lives will tell her what it is. This book is the story of her journey to the end of the secret. The canvas of the novel is the dramatic landscape of Africa in the seventies and nineties, and also the tender landscape of the human heart.