Two cousins grow up in the 1860s on a lonely Farm in the thirsty mountain veld.
Their childhood is disrupted by a bombastic Irishman, Bonaparte Blenkins, who gains uncanny influence over the girls\' gross, stupid stepmother.. and doomed.
Em is fat, sweet and contented, a born housewife
Lyndall, clever, restless, beautiful...
Two cousins grow up in the 1860s on a lonely Farm in the thirsty mountain veld