Rules of War — James Byrom

When Britain went to war against the Boer republics in South Africa in 1899 it ripped the heart out of the Afrikaner people. This fact-based novel follows the trials and tribulations of Mattie Taljaard, a Boer woman, and John Errington, a colonial who volunteered to fight for the British. As the tide of war ebbed and flowed it took John and Mattie through pain, suffering and tragedy until it finally brought them together in moving and strange circumstances. With three maps.