NECESSARY MADNESS BY JENN CROWELL IN SOUTH AFRICA

 After only 8 years of marriage Gloria Burgess's beloved husband Bill, a painter, succumbs to leukemia, leaving Gloria with a son to raise alone in an adopted England. The madness of grief is a constant, overwhelming temptation she must withstand, for her child's sake, if not her own. To accomplish this Gloria looks back over her childhood in America and the lessons she can learn from the past. Between her father's clinging, drowning despair and her mother's emotional abandonment, there is a balance that she struggles to find. And meanwhile life goes inexorably on, in spite of Gloria's anguish. There must be ways to reinvent herself, to find happiness again, and to bring peace back to the tumult of her world. Hard cover, dust jacket has some scuffing to the edges. The book is in good condition. Rubber stamp marking on the first page.  Postage for this item is R45 via post office or R99 via Postnet.