Patagonia - Maya FowlerCondition: New Tertius de Klerk: Afrikaner, hapless academic and potential has been. A drunken one night stand with a student, the confrontation, a terrible incident. Tertius must flee. Like his great grandfather Basjan before him, Tertius leaves for Patagonia, the remote South American region where his forebears started anew after the Anglo Boer War. Its a desperate act, but also an opportunity to seek refuge among longlost relatives on the windswept

more than sixty years later

As the women’s lives intersect

A hundred and twenty years ago

Should you follow your own heart or let others lead you

she was consumed with panic

He ran under the cover of night

I could not put it down

Deborah and Geoffrey know

never to be seen again

In the end labour bears fruit and a small settlement becomes a big city

I forget about all that

An incendiary cocktail of murder