What is in the Novel ? - A little more detail !

A Disappointing Truth - The Tragic Story of Sarah Witt is a novel about Sarah Witt, a mixed race girl who is the daughter of a black Zimbabwean house maid and a white English colonialist. After the death of her mother, Rudo Mwari, at age two, Sarah is brought up in England having no knowledge of the country (Zimbabwe) where her mother is from. Zimbabwe is the place where her parents met and had an interracial relationship in the midst of racial inequality and segregation. Following the death of her father, George Witt, and the long disappointing journey of her own life circumstances, her curiosity causes her to visit and explore the land that her parents kept from her. Her curiosity leads her to discover that her father was not who he made himself out to be – which was a respectable English teacher. In a shocking twist she discovers that her parents may be connected to the man that raped her in 1990 when she was at college in New York City - the rapist's name is Jentzen Smithe.

Peter Donaldson, her father’s best friend and the man who she is devoted to, may have betrayed her trust as he is involved in the triangle of her parents' lies. At the centre of this triangle is the wealthy Arts Investor Sir Algernon Fairbanks whom Sarah would like to consider as a mentor in the world of the wealthy entrepreneurs. She has no knowledge that her father, Peter Donaldson and Sir Algernon Fairbanks have a connection that stems way back to the 1960’s. The connection of these three men is in the world of ORGANISED CRIME. Within the connection of these three men and their connection to Jentzen Smithe, lies the disappointing truth which Sarah must discover. The African country is about to reveal that Sarah's parents had a disappointing secret that will threaten Sarah's long standing belief of the origins of her own existence. It is the truth that makes you free no matter how disappointing it may be.