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The Fever Tree, by Jennifer McVeigh, is her debut novel into the world of Literary excellence. Ms. McVeigh has created a stunning portrayal of South Africa and the Diamond Mining, in Kimberly, in the 1800's. Her descriptions are visionary, with the quintessential essence of an era long forgotten. Ms. McVeigh has brought to life her vision of a Historical Romance, Colonial Africa, epidemics, exploitation of immigrants and natives, struggles, greed, abuse, disease, destruction, animal cruelty, and painstaking realities of a life we could never imagine in our wildest dreams. Her vision is so clear, it is as if her readers are present, witnessing every historical event, which has been carefully researched and developed into this epic saga, The Fever Tree.

The story begins in London, with Frances Irvine, an only child from a privileged self made Irish father. Her mother passed away 2 years ago, was a Hamilton, and her family looked down on her husband for being an Irish immigrant. Her father could not deal with his loss and so he has every picture, representation, artifact, reminder, removed from the house as though she never existed. Frances is never allowed to speak of her mother or her death, and she must grieve on her alone, silently. Frances is a bit naive, pampered, and use to a governess, maids, and carriage keepers. Her sense of entitlement is obvious, as she assumes she will always been a woman of substance. She has been raised to be a lady in every manner, is a bit pompous, and knows no other way of life.

Suddenly, her father dies, and Frances has gone from a woman of means to a pauper. She is left destitute, due to financial ruin, because her father, being a visionary, made a bad investment into railways. She doesn't have an abundance of choices, either be abandoned by her mother's family, used as a nurse maid by her father's sister, or marry Edwin. So she decides to take a proposal of marriage from Dr. Edwin Matthews. Now Frances must leave her comfortable surroundings for South Africa to begin her new life with Edwin. Edwin was given an opportunity to come to stay with Frances and her father as a teenager, and was taken under her father's wing. Now he is ready to repay the debt, by helping Frances, and at the same time further his career by meeting people in the right circles with Frances' help. Frances agrees to marry him, though she thinks he has a very unlikable personality, is severely quiet, and ranks on her nerves, as he did as a teenager. She feels that Edwin is using the situation to act as an opportunist, and take advantage of her. As she leaves on a steamer ship to the Cape in South Africa to marry a Doctor, Frances believes her life will be be in a big city filled with the affluence, though she knows it won't be what she has been accustomed to her whole life. She knows she will have to do without certain things, but not to what degree this will change. On the steamer, she meets a dashingly handsome cad, William Westbrook, who she eagerly falls in love, lust and passion with. Frances is ready to forgo her marriage to Edwin to go off with William, when he tells her he has no intentions of marrying her. Frances, though brokenhearted, decides she has no choice but to follow through with the loveless marriage to Edwin out of sheer necessity.

Frances is in for a rude awakening when she arrives to find the desolate, isolated area that her and Edwin will be living in. Life is not the high society that she believed it would be. Here, eventually, she is thrown into the impoverished area, the Diamond Mines, Small Pox, atrocities, animal cruelty, and pure greed of people who want to become rich at any cost. Frances is miserable and cannot get the image of William out of her mind. Though her new found freedom is embraced.

She is bound on the roller coaster of life, not knowing how to make proper choices, (as they have all been made for her, her entire life.) Frances has a lot of growing up to do and a very hard, long, road to travel, mistakes to be made, and reparations to be amended. It takes quite a lot for Frances to finally realize the treasure that has been right in front of her all along. She grows in many ways from the coddled child, to a young woman on a journey of self-realization and self discovery, that leads her to evolve with a resilience of heart, soul, and spirit. The prose in this epic saga are momentous. This is a historical romance with all the splendor of Gone with the Wind.

This novel had characters that fought the good fight to get through their journey, and it had people that were sadistic, cruel, inhumane in their treatment of others and animals, along with the devastation to a country and its land. This novel spans the drought, many historical events, colonial Africa, the Victorian Era, and more. Ms. McVeigh has written seamless prose, made her readers think on a more spiritual level of a country filled with devastation and ruin. This is a love for a country unyielding in it's promise for a future. This is a masterpiece of Africa's history and American Literature, far beyond romance, and an abundance of wealth beyond measure.

I give, The Fever Tree, by Jennifer McVeigh, 4 Life Changing, Eye Opening, Acacia Fever Trees, Second Chances, Cinema Scope Descriptive Stars!!!


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The Fever Tree Jennifer McVeigh 8601404343810 Books Reviews

I liked this book not for the story of the two protagonists but for the history of South Africa in those days in the late 19th century. At first I really didn't like the book, but then I began to think of it more broadly than just the somewhat pathetic story of Edwin and his wife. The descriptions of the landscape and the drought and the filth and disease were horrifying but, I'm sure, true. That so many people persisted against all the odds to remain there is remarkable. I wish the author had gone into more detail about the history between the Brits and the Boers. That would have been fascinating.
From the very beginning I had trouble with this book. Slow moving and shallow, there was not a single likable character. Shipped off to South Africa to be married off to a cold distant cousin, Frances has a fling with a dashing shipmate. Wooden and unbelievable, the romance fizzles when her beau sends her a "Dear Joan" letter. Forced into a loveless marriage, our unscrupulous and unrepentant heroine becomes a lackluster housewife to her suddenly noble husband. How he goes from decidedly milquetoast to a dashing defender of the downtrodden is never developed. The book waxes and wanes with a meandering river of misplaced passion, although with beautiful descriptions of Africa. The tumultuous weather and unstable political descriptions of Africa were what kept me from closing the book. I found the author's need to relate the religion of all the scoundrels in the book, unnecessary as well as annoying. When light dawns, and Frances shares a "Scarlet" moment, it was just too late for me to care.
If you're looking for historical fiction set against the backdrop of late 19th century faraway places, you'll reap much enjoyment from this book. It is based on the true story of the smallpox epidemic and the diamond mine exploitation of African natives in Kimberley. Ms. McVeigh writes with such fluidity that you simply are swept gracefully from page to page. I don't mean to describe it as a page turner but it's great reading for relaxation and pleasure. The quality of the author's storytelling is way above average. Most of her characters are well drawn except for the heroine - Frances Irvine. I wanted to understand her more than I was allowed to. The closest you get to knowing her is when her sexual desire is unleashed. The character needs more personality and the name "Frances" doesn't help. Dull... The best drawn character is William Westbrook and the question of whether to trust him or not will keep you dangling throughout the book. The South African landscape is beautifully described in such detail that you can imagine actually being there in that time and place. I did note that several reviewers made mention of the book being a rip off of Somerset Maugham's "The Painted Veil" and I personally saw no connection between the two stories. I don't normally give books five stars but this one is certainly worthy of a good recommendation.
My Take on this Journey

The Fever Tree, by Jennifer McVeigh, is her debut novel into the world of Literary excellence. Ms. McVeigh has created a stunning portrayal of South Africa and the Diamond Mining, in Kimberly, in the 1800's. Her descriptions are visionary, with the quintessential essence of an era long forgotten. Ms. McVeigh has brought to life her vision of a Historical Romance, Colonial Africa, epidemics, exploitation of immigrants and natives, struggles, greed, abuse, disease, destruction, animal cruelty, and painstaking realities of a life we could never imagine in our wildest dreams. Her vision is so clear, it is as if her readers are present, witnessing every historical event, which has been carefully researched and developed into this epic saga, The Fever Tree.

The story begins in London, with Frances Irvine, an only child from a privileged self made Irish father. Her mother passed away 2 years ago, was a Hamilton, and her family looked down on her husband for being an Irish immigrant. Her father could not deal with his loss and so he has every picture, representation, artifact, reminder, removed from the house as though she never existed. Frances is never allowed to speak of her mother or her death, and she must grieve on her alone, silently. Frances is a bit naive, pampered, and use to a governess, maids, and carriage keepers. Her sense of entitlement is obvious, as she assumes she will always been a woman of substance. She has been raised to be a lady in every manner, is a bit pompous, and knows no other way of life.

Suddenly, her father dies, and Frances has gone from a woman of means to a pauper. She is left destitute, due to financial ruin, because her father, being a visionary, made a bad investment into railways. She doesn't have an abundance of choices, either be abandoned by her mother's family, used as a nurse maid by her father's sister, or marry Edwin. So she decides to take a proposal of marriage from Dr. Edwin Matthews. Now Frances must leave her comfortable surroundings for South Africa to begin her new life with Edwin. Edwin was given an opportunity to come to stay with Frances and her father as a teenager, and was taken under her father's wing. Now he is ready to repay the debt, by helping Frances, and at the same time further his career by meeting people in the right circles with Frances' help. Frances agrees to marry him, though she thinks he has a very unlikable personality, is severely quiet, and ranks on her nerves, as he did as a teenager. She feels that Edwin is using the situation to act as an opportunist, and take advantage of her. As she leaves on a steamer ship to the Cape in South Africa to marry a Doctor, Frances believes her life will be be in a big city filled with the affluence, though she knows it won't be what she has been accustomed to her whole life. She knows she will have to do without certain things, but not to what degree this will change. On the steamer, she meets a dashingly handsome cad, William Westbrook, who she eagerly falls in love, lust and passion with. Frances is ready to forgo her marriage to Edwin to go off with William, when he tells her he has no intentions of marrying her. Frances, though brokenhearted, decides she has no choice but to follow through with the loveless marriage to Edwin out of sheer necessity.

Frances is in for a rude awakening when she arrives to find the desolate, isolated area that her and Edwin will be living in. Life is not the high society that she believed it would be. Here, eventually, she is thrown into the impoverished area, the Diamond Mines, Small Pox, atrocities, animal cruelty, and pure greed of people who want to become rich at any cost. Frances is miserable and cannot get the image of William out of her mind. Though her new found freedom is embraced.

She is bound on the roller coaster of life, not knowing how to make proper choices, (as they have all been made for her, her entire life.) Frances has a lot of growing up to do and a very hard, long, road to travel, mistakes to be made, and reparations to be amended. It takes quite a lot for Frances to finally realize the treasure that has been right in front of her all along. She grows in many ways from the coddled child, to a young woman on a journey of self-realization and self discovery, that leads her to evolve with a resilience of heart, soul, and spirit. The prose in this epic saga are momentous. This is a historical romance with all the splendor of Gone with the Wind.

This novel had characters that fought the good fight to get through their journey, and it had people that were sadistic, cruel, inhumane in their treatment of others and animals, along with the devastation to a country and its land. This novel spans the drought, many historical events, colonial Africa, the Victorian Era, and more. Ms. McVeigh has written seamless prose, made her readers think on a more spiritual level of a country filled with devastation and ruin. This is a love for a country unyielding in it's promise for a future. This is a masterpiece of Africa's history and American Literature, far beyond romance, and an abundance of wealth beyond measure.

I give, The Fever Tree, by Jennifer McVeigh, 4 Life Changing, Eye Opening, Acacia Fever Trees, Second Chances, Cinema Scope Descriptive Stars!!!