The Governors Lady

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Set in an off-the-map British Colony in Central Africa in the early 1930s The Governors Lady portays a host of interesting characters: young Harold Stebbs bachelor newly appointed to the Governors secretariat in Amimbo; the Governor Sir Gardnor Hackforth already something of a Pro-consular legend in the Service & tipped by The Times for the next Viceroyship; Mr. Frith the passed-over Acting Chief Secretary a rather too familiar figure at the bar in the Milner Club; Tony Henley the A.D.C. who has ultimately to be disowned; Old Moses the trusted Mimbo butler & key figure in the Residency; the socially irresistible Mr. Ngono; Mr. Talefwa left-wing editor of the African Independence newspaper War Drum; & Mr. Das itinerant legal Counsel called in by the Defence. Then there is the Governors Lady herself; twenty years younger than Sir Gardnor; somewhat withdrawn from Government life because of an incident that occurred before Harold Stebbs arrived; & already the subject of gossip in European African & Asian circles alike. There is also Lady Annes lady-in-waiting Sybil Prosser who has her own reasons for discretion.