Cape FeverAn exhilarating tale of twisted desire and the unexpected shape of revenge, for readers of The Safekeep. I come highly recommended to Mrs Hattingh through sentences I tell her I cannot read. 1920, a small, unnamed city in a colonial empire. Soraya Matas believes she has found the ideal job as a personal maid to the eccentric Mrs Hattingh, whose beautiful, decaying home is not far from the Muslim quarter where Soraya lives with her parents. As Soraya