The Happiness Thief (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• Kasuba Chama Mwenso: This is her story. She takes us on a journey of love, of friendship, of betraya, of lossl. A journey of mixed emotions, of laughter, of tears. anger, disappointment and confusion.
• Dianne Tembo: She is Kasuba's best friend and finds herself entangled in a web that she doesn't know how to get out of as she finds herself the outsider of a love triangle that leaves a trail of broken hearts and broken relationships in its wake.
• Bana Chama: Kasuba's aunt, who she refers to as her Mother. She is strong, wise and full of love. She is the rock that holds Kasuba together when her world comes crashing under her.
• Sam Mwenso: Tall and handsome, he quickly sweeps Kasuba off her feet. He is everything she ever wanted, loving, gentle and a great cook too. He is also the man who helps her world come crashing as his dark secret unfolds right in front of Kasuba's eyes.
• Jack Tembo: Gorgeous, tall, well cultured. He is Sam's best friend and confidant, the man Kasuba runs to in search of answers to Sam's dark world.
• Luke Chama Mwenso: Kasuba's son.
• Paul Mwenso: Sam's distinguished father, a former vice president, he exudes power and wisdom yet at the same time warmth. He is the man who is for Kasuba in the midst of the chaos.
• Chama Chama: Kasuba's beloved brother.
• Mumbi Chama: Kasuba's young sister.
• Timothy Mwenso: Sam's brother and Dianne's teenage boyfriend. He plays a big part in the teenage incident that nearly destroys Dianne and Kasuba's friendship.
• Max: Kasuba's taxi driver, a man she fondly thinks of as her guardian angel and the man who fills her heart with terror with his stories, mostly made up for his own entertainment. He looks out for Kasuba.
• Mr Chama: Kasuba's father. A distant yet loving father.
• Ba Kunda: Kasuba's step mother, Mumbi's mother.
• Chipo Hachundu: Kasuba's gloriously beautiful friend. Kasuba rediscovers the joys of laughter, the warmth of friendship when she meets her.

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• “I think about the day after tomorrow and fear grips my heart like the grasp of a fish eagle on its prey, unrelenting.”

  Kasuba

• “I whispered sweet nothings of how everything would be fine. She knew it wouldn't be. She knew the ugly truth. Maybe she even realised that the truth, ugly or not, always finds a way to come out.”

  Kasuba

• “As soon as I woke up, I knew I was in some kind of trouble. The kind of trouble every girl; hopes she will never have to wake up to.”

  Kasuba

• “You need to relax and live in the now, you have so much more than alot of people, look at me, a trail of broken relationships because I am haunted by that man who died on me.”

  Dianne

• “I knew it, he knew it. There was no hiding it. In that moment, we both understood we had crossed a line and we could never return to the place where we once pretended that if we just loved each other a little harder, that it would all be fine.”

  Kasuba

• “I do not understand you most times my child, but you are mine. If coming back here is what you need right now, so be it.”

  Mr Chama

• “Everyone who is anyone, my dear, knows who wears the trousers in the relationship between Paul and his son Sam.”

  Big Willie

• “Jack is like a Hyena, even though he is perfectly capable of finding his own man, he prefers to lurk in the dark, and take away someone else's man from them.”

  Dianne

• “I can't relate to the difficult situation you have just gone through, yet remember, sometimes people tell us things that are not true, because they know that is what we would like to hear. Speak to Dianne, make peace with her and go on with your life.”

  Bana Chama

• “I despised him for the first time in our marriage. He had tried to break me and I, in return, had resented him.”

  Kasuba

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• Zambia
• Ndola
• Lusaka
• Perth, Australia

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1. P. M. Hansombo (Author)

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary