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Elise is in love with the plantation that is her home; she is in love with playing with beetles and chameleons in your garden, buying sweets from the town shop and listening to the experiences of spirits and charms advised by her nanny, Beauty. As a white girl in 1990s Zimbabwe, her life is idyllic. Her clothes are always clean and ironed, there's always tea in the silver precious metal teapot, gin and tonics are offered on the veranda, and, in theory at least, dark-colored and white live in tranquility. However this dream-world of her years as a child cannot last. As Elise gets older, her eyes are exposed to the complexities of adult existence, both through the changes wrought in her family by the arrival of her step-father Steve, and through her growing knowledge of the tensions in Zimbabwean contemporary society. As Mugabe's presidency becomes sour, the privileged world of the white farmers begins to crumble into anarchy.
