In a Foreign Country

Recently graduated, Anne is in Ghana for the first time. Her father, Dick, has been working up country for an NGO since his daughter was a small child. They no longer really know each other.

A few days into her six-month stay, the houseboy Moses returns from a trip. As the weeks pass, Anne has a growing feeling that she's surplus to requirements. Dick is grumpy and distant; Moses distinctly put out at her continued presence. She finds respite teaching eager young pupils at a local Catholic school. Then, out of the blue, a terrible accident changes everything.

In its aftermath, Anne's closeness to a priest in trouble with his superiors at the Mission, reaches a tipping point that endangers them both.

PRAISE

'Intelligent, subtle and sensitive... I was conscious throughout of the author's deft control and understatement. Less was definitely more, and what she chose to omit, as well as what she included, made it a much greater book... a thought-provoking, absorbing and rewarding read, which I highly recommended.' - Debbie Young (Debbie Young's Writing Life)

'Will leave you thinking about the characters after you put it down, and wanting more as you read the last words…[Shepherd's] future as an author looks bright' --- GWales