The Edge o' Beyond

by Gertrude Page

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780648465676
Publisher:	Andrew Brett
Publication date:	12/02/2024
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Gertrude Eliza Page was born in 1872 in Erdington, England, was educated at Bedford High School. She wrote for ‘The Girl’s Own Paper’ as a teenager. She married George Alexander ‘Alec’ Dobbin in 1902 and moved to Rhodesia with him, where she died in 1922.

Many of her novels were written about stories based in Rhodesia. The list of books she published in her lifetime include the following:

• Love in the Wilderness, 1907
• Paddy the Next Best Thing, 1908
• The Edge O’ Beyond, 1908
• The Silent Ranger, 1909
• Two Lovers and a Lighthouse, 1910
• Where the Strange Roads Go Down, 1910
• Jill's Rhodesian Philosophy, or, The Dam Farm, 1910
• Winding Paths, 1911
• The Rhodesian, 1912
• The Great Splendour, 1912
• The Pathway, 1914
• Follow After, 1915
• Some There Are, 1916
• The Supreme Desire, 1916
• The Course of My Ship (with Foster-Melliar), 1918
• The Veldt Trail, 1919
• Far From the Limelight (and other tales), 1920
• Jill on a Ranch, 1922
• The Mysterious Strangers