The housemaid's daughter - Barbara Mutch

Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa to
marry her fianc. Isolated and estranged in a harsh landscape, she finds solace in her diary and the friendship of her housemaid's daughter, Ada. Under Cathleen's tutelage, Ada grows into an accomplished pianist, and a reader who cannot resist turning the pages of the diary, discovering the secrets Cathleen sought to hide. When Ada is compromised and finds she is expecting a mixed-race child, she flees from her home. Scorned within her own community, she is forced to carve a life for herself, her child, and her music.