The Chair

Two women forced into refuge a continent and century apart, bound by the same discovery.

Against the backdrop of the Boer War, Zanela Mfeka finds a diamond while serving on a farm in rural Kimberley. When the farm becomes a casualty of General Kitchener’s scorched earth policy, Zanela is sent to a native refugee camp where she soon discovers that luck is a far more precious commodity than diamonds.

Over a century later, single mum Lynn, on the run from her abusive ex-husband with her ten-year-old son, seeks refuge above a workshop in bleak, suburban London. Lynn and her son find unlikely companionship in carpenter and ex-convict Ray, but as the relationship blossoms, Lynn’s ex-husband closes in.

The secret war diary of a young British soldier brings the two worlds together in a thrilling story of hope and survival.