A Captive Freedom

Love in the city of diamonds…

When Vivian Veasey-Hunter, Captain of Lancers, returned from Ashanti, his roving eye sought the means to forget the shameful horrors of war. Who better to distract him than the beautiful actress Leila Duncan of the famous ‘Lindley Girls’?

But Leila was more than an empty-headed chorus girl. She too had her secrets and a past she wished to forget. And as their love burst into flame, moving from London’s glittering theatre world to the dry heat of the South African veld, it seemed that the fires of passion would consume both their hearts like tinder . . .

A Captive Freedom is a complex and absorbing novel that ranges from the glamour and gaiety of turn-of-the-century London to the despair and suffering of the Boer War, by an author who has been named as ‘amongst the best writers of historical fiction’.

Elizabeth Darrell served as an officer in the WRAC. She grew up in Hong Kong and Singapore, and travelled extensively in Europe, South Africa and Malaysia. She is the author of numerous acclaimed novels, including Concerto, And in the Morning and We Will Remember.


Genre: Historical