01428cam a2200337 4500 513462872 TxAuBib 20170309120000.0 170309|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250054463 125005446X TxAuBib Mutch Barbara. The Housemaid's Daughter. 2012 / 1st St. Martin's edition /2015. New York, N. Y. : St. Martin's Griffin. 401 pages ; 21 cm. When Cathleen Harrington left her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa, she knew she did not love the man she was to marry there. Isolated and estranged in a small town in the harsh Karoo desert, her only real companions were her diary and her black housemaid. In one night everything changes and Cathleen is forced to make a choice : should she conform to society , or search for the girl who has become closer to her than her own daughter? 20170309. Women pioneers -- Fiction. Irish -- South African -- fiction. Aparteid -- Fiction. Irish. Social Conditions. Women Pioneers. South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- Fiction. South Africa. Fiction. History. Historical Fiction.