The Top of the World

This is another Ethel Dell novel. Sylvia Ingleton is left motherless at an early age.

• Her father remarried a woman who is not happy to share her household with Sylvia.
• Soon, Sylvia is entangled in webs of deceit to get her married off.
• Boldly, she announces to her father and would be suitor that she will rejoin her fiancé of five years in South Africa.

• In this thrilling adventure, she finds her way like a lost child to her Top of the World.

The backdrop of South Africas wilderness, drought, cloud bursts and love triangles leaves Sylvia in a struggle to survive. It is an astonishingly melodramatic novel, with a plot that moves with such gusto from one strong emotional situation to another that you only occasionally pause to consider how very exaggerated and improbable it is.