A review by andrew_j_r
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner

3.0

I read this book because I went into a bookshop in Cape Town and asked for something very South African.
It's a pretty grim tale. If follows the lives, principally, of three children who live on a farm and follows their lives through pretty much to the end. It shows hard, thankless lives, with almost no joy in them. There are not many characters, but the nice ones seen to get a hard time and the nastiest one - it is hinted towards the end - eventually does rather well for himself. I'm really not sure