The Edge o' Beyond — Gertrude Page

When a young girl living in Devon, England, her mother dying, is married to a man who owns a farm in the far-away land of Rhodesia.  She doesn't really want to leave, but she also wants her mother to be content on her death-bed in the knowledge that her little girl will be secure.The lands of Rhodesia aren't anything like she'd expected, and with the memories of her beloved hometown Devon slipping away, she finds comfort in the people in the next farm who provide better company than her stoic, distant husband.Things seem to get better for her after an illness that introduces her to a charming doctor, but as tragedy strikes, she is forced to make a tough decision: to stay in Rhodesia with her cold, distant husband, alone in her grief, or to flee back to England.This story offers a glimpse into the lives of people living in England and Rhodesia in the early 1900s, the trials, hardships and loneliness often faced by the people who found themselves out in the colonies, often unequipped for the tasks set before them, sometimes without fully understanding what colony life can mean, particularly when people living in rural Rhodesia are held to the civilized standards of England.It covers topics that no-doubt would have been controversial at the time including divorce, matrimonial alienation, suffragettes, death and being cast out.This book has been converted from an original copy into digital format by a volunteer with the intent to preserve the author's works.Originally born in England, Gertrude Page later moved to Rhodesia after getting married and produced many books, several of which featuring stories about life in Africa, with the books becoming quite popular in the day due to interest into day to day life in the further flung parts of the world.While only a few of Gertrude's books have been made available online, it has been a goal of this publisher to locate other books that they may also be made available, both to new readers and new generations.