Publisher's Synopsis
Stella Butler's romance with the River Great Ouse turns sour as Africa's disturbing past rises to the surface. Stella Butler travels north to Bedford for the reading of her late uncle Phil's will. She learns that she has inherited all he owned, including a narrow-boat stacked with African-themed bric-a-brac. At first disinclined to keep the boat, she falls in love with both it and the River Great Ouse upon which it is moored. This development proves inconvenient to her late Uncle's closest associates: Danny, an ex-African National Congress gun-runner, Ruth, a young South African Indian woman who may or who may not be Phil's daughter, and Alan, who also appears to be involved in the narrow-boat and its contents.
