Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa

A young woman on a mule coach to Bulawayo, nursing her pride across the South African highveld. That's Vivienne Carlton, and she's hit bottom. The family fortunes have crumbled, and she's bent on journalism as her way back to the life she remembers. The dusty journey becomes a prism for everything she's lost: dignity, status, perhaps love itself. When the coach stops at a native village and she hears the tragic tale of a lost child, something cracks open in her - a reckoning with her own loneliness and alienation. Stockley writes with sharp eyes and little mercy, tracing the way a woman carves out a place in a world that offers her so little purchase. These are stories of ambition and survival in colonial South Africa, where status is fragile and falling is easy.