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The fire portrait / Barbara Mutch; read by Joanna Bending.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
SCD MUTC	Adult Spoken Word		Greenacre .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781407997131
Name	Mutch, Barbara author
Title	The fire portrait / Barbara Mutch; read by Joanna Bending.
Published	Oxford : Isis, 2022.
Description	9 sound discs (CD) (approximately 10 hr.) : digital ; 12 cm.
Notes	Soundings CD
Performers	Joanna Bending.
Summary	When Englishwoman Frances McDonald sets up home in a remote South African hamlet, she is regarded with suspicion by the community. Confined by a marriage of convenience, she seeks an outlet by learning the local language and exhibiting her paintings. Soon war threatens to divide not only the country but the town itself and scupper Frances' hard-won acceptance. While her husband leaves to fight, Frances chances to meet a former love. The bright joy of that unexpected reunion is clouded by a day that will change her life. Out of the smoke and ash of a shocking fire, she is propelled on a journey that will take her from the arid veld to the bright lights of London and beyond.
Target audience note	Adult.
Subjects	British -- South Africa -- Fiction
	Women artists -- Fiction
	Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
	South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- Fiction
Genre	Audiobooks
Other Names	Bending, Joanna Reader
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Audiobooks . British -- South Africa -- Fiction . Man-woman relationships -- Fiction . South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- Fiction . Women artists -- Fiction . See Also: Talking books . Authors: Bending, Joanna . Mutch, Barbara .