Beyond Tears is a searing indictment of the Zimbabwe Government's desperate land grab, the destruction of the country's agricultural sector and the suffering of those who worked and lived on those farms. It is, indeed, a horrifying story of how a country is being destroyed by a government determined to retain power at all costs. In the book, she talks to the family of a murdered farmer and to six farmers who were abducted with him from the apparent safety of a police station.

She also interviews two women who were viciously raped and afterwards found it difficult to find anyone who would help them. Then, she goes back to her once-thriving farm and finds it has been turned into a squatter camp.

Beyond Tears is a sequel to her moving account of how she and her husband turned a 1000 hectare rocky piece of land near Marondera into a productive farm, only to lose it to a group of "war veterans" ten years later. This was published in a best-selling book, African Tears, in 2000