The Singing Grass - Literary series

Mary Turner, the daughter of a humble railway worker, has a miserable childhood and grows up in solitude. As a young woman, she goes to work in the city and ends up marrying a farmer. However, she cannot establish any intimate relationship with him and remains lonely. It is then that she begins the first true relationship of her life, but she does so with Moses, a black man, the only person she is forbidden to be with. The Grass is Singing brings to us the raw and majestic beauty and the ruthless social values of South Africa, in vigorous and colourful writing.