The Flamboyant Tree — Isobel Chace

Frances Whitney had read an article about the self-help villages of Tanzania, where the population worked together in a kind of co-operative for their mutual benefit, and before anyone could stop her she had volunteered to go to one of these villages as a doctor.

At Nguyu they had been expecting a male doctor. "You won't last ten minutes," Simon Abbott told her. She would show him!

Hero: Simon Abbott
Heroine: Frances Whitney