It was just as the political battles over white settlement in Kenya were heating up that a minor literary phenomenon, popularly known as the 'Kenya Novel,' began to appear in British bookstores. This was a variety of that much despised popular literary genre, Romantic Fiction. Kenya novels took the traditional concern of this genre, romantic attachments, and the traditional plot formula - girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl gets boy - and set them among the settlers of the White Highlands of Kenya. (428)