The Stranger Son by Ruth Lymas Reeves

In spite of being the first person from his village to go to university and gain an Honours degree in accounting, Saye’s future doesn’t look golden at all. Jobs are impossible to get in the city unless you have a ‘contact’, but how can he return home to the village he left in such hope, and in which he is now a stranger? What will happen to Baindu, the girl he loves but cannot marry unless he finds a city job? And is it true that someone or something is trying to harm him? Will the old ways win, or are the new ways more powerful?