A very good read. Very believable. Ada was a very real character whose pain and courage came through. Very interesting take on race relations, especially when talking about mixed race peoples. Very illuminating about apartheid.

This book was an easy read- and very timely with the death of Nelson Mandela- It was interesting learning more about South Africa and Apartheid through the eyes of some very strong appealing female characters. This story brought me to tears- I enjoyed it very much.

It feels like it should have been 100 years earlier. A beautifully written story of life in Africa in the early to mid 1900s and the struggle for human rights and racial equality.

This book was a great look into the race relations of their time and the characters were so believable to me. The relationship between Ada, the main character, and Madam was something that I believe may have happened, tho maybe not in the same capacity, more than we believed, and was a life raft in the muddy waters of bigotry. If I had a complaint about the book it would be the time lapses that had us jumping too far ahead, missing the events in those time periods. All in all though, I liked the book and it made me want to research more about apartheid.