Rosalind Brett weaves a tale of passion and frustration in the dense jungle of tropical Africa. Amid heat, rains and fever, ‘Marea’ finds that puppy love is not enough to make a man out of a weak-spined, easy going wastrel.
Married to a man she can only despise for his weakness, her code of honour demands that she go not fifty percent of the way, but ninety or even a hundred percent. Even when she learns that he is unfaithful to her, she must carry on, though she now realises she loves another. Loves him with all the passion and devotion of a true and just love. But her mind will not let her admit such a love, not even to herself.
Here is a tale of the jungle, the cruel jungle that separates the men from the boys. No place for any woman - or so they think - until Marea shows that anything can be conquered if you just have the will to do so. The heat and humidity does strange things to any woman - Marea is no exception.