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A Kind of Light

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Written in 1987 and recently discovered by his widow, H.R.F. Keating's A Kind of Light is an homage to Joseph Conrad, a writer he greatly admired. It is from that author's Heart of Darkness that the title is taken. Conrad's African jungle is the setting, and it has two interwoven stories. The first concerns a young Victorian gentlewoman who sets out into the heart of the Dark Continent, accompanied only by native bearers, in search of a plant which she has been told is the cure for the ravaging disease typhoid. She keeps diaries, six of which resurface a century later. Excerpts of these, together with a firsthand narration of her physically hazardous and mentally disturbing journey, give us a glimpse of Africa 100 years ago. Alongside this, but set in present-day 1987, when Keating wrote the book, a young couple, having learnt of the existence of the diaries and the possibility that a further six were written and were preserved in Africa, determine to make a documentary film following in her footsteps, and they, too, set off into the unknown, hoping to discover the remaining notebooks. Keating, as usual, manages to underscore these gripping narratives with provocative philosophical arguments on such topics as savagery versus civilisation, innocence versus corruption and atheism versus divinity as well as exploring the moral dilemmas facing the young in the mid-1980s.

About the Author :
Henry Reymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID. Sheila Mitchell trained at the Central School in London before going into repertory theatre. In 1953 she married H.R.F. Keating, and after taking a number of years off acting to raise a family, Mitchell went back to stage and television. She played Lena in Athol Fugard's Boesman and Lena in a touring production, and also appeared in Present Laughter (1981), A Mind to Murder (1995) and Lillie (1978). Michael Holroyd CBE FRHistS FRSL is an English biographer. Holroyd has written biographies of Hugh Kingsmill, Augustus John and Bernard Shaw. His awards include the 2001 Heywood Hill Literary Prize and the 2005 David Cohen Prize for literature. In 2006, he was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English PEN for 'a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature'. Holroyd is married to the author Dame Margaret Drabble.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781489379825
  • Publisher: Bolinda Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Bolinda/Audible Audio
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • ISBN-10: 1489379827
  • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 2017
  • Binding: Audio disk
  • Language: English


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