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A harrowing and heart-breaking story of a five-year-old girl abandoned by her family in the midst of Apartheid South Africa. Marlene Neuman is removed from her hometown, below the slopes of Table Mountain, Cape Town, to a missionary, hundreds of miles away, at the northern border of South Africa. In the harsh unknown surroundings, she must fend off abuse from those she recognized as her own and bend to the rules of a Catholic orphanage. Her journey to adulthood is filled with twists and turns, as fate carves the pathway further away from stability and peace.
She experiences the devastation caused by the government's segregation rules in every aspect of her life and in the bonds she forms with those around her. Like many other South Africans of that time, she eventually finds herself drawn into the struggle against the unjust laws of her country. She finds and loses loved ones, until she must take refuge, when the brutal South African security forces hunt her. As they begin to close in on her and the man she realises she loves, is it too late?
CONTRIBUTORS: Bernadette Kiewiet
EAN: 9781685624262
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WEIGHT: 277 g
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Austin Macauley
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GENRE: FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
WIDTH: 156 cm
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Book Themes:
Modern and Contemporary romance
Bernadette Mildred Kiewiet (nee Nyman) was born in Claremont, Cape Town ,14 June 1961. She matriculated at Mount View High School, and obtained both Creative Writing- and Copyeditor/Proofreading online certificate courses at UCT-Getsmarter. She is an associate member of the Professional Editors’ Guild and completed a mentorship in fiction with John-David Linnegar (author and training facilitator). She has been chosen to feature as a writer in their upcoming December 2023, quarterly PEG-Board. Her short story ‘The Crash’ was published in the ‘Write My City Short Story Anthology’ 2019. This novel, Life’s Soiled Red Earth, published by Austen Macauley, 31st March 2023 is her first work. She featured in the publisher’s year-end magazine. At her home in Kuils River, Cape Town, she juggles her writing with household duties, yoga, and gardening. She is currently busy with the sequel of her current book ‘Beyond Bitter Waters’ which many readers asked for, and is also finalising an anthology of short stories.
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A harrowing and heart-breaking story of a five-year-old girl abandoned by her family in the midst of Apartheid South Africa. Marlene Neuman is removed from her hometown, below the slopes of Table Mountain, Cape Town, to a missionary, hundreds of miles away, at the northern border of South Africa. In the harsh unknown surroundings, she must fend off abuse from those she recognized as her own and bend to the rules of a Catholic orphanage. Her journey to adulthood is filled with twists and turns, as fate carves the pathway further away from stability and peace.
She experiences the devastation caused by the government's segregation rules in every aspect of her life and in the bonds she forms with those around her. Like many other South Africans of that time, she eventually finds herself drawn into the struggle against the unjust laws of her country. She finds and loses loved ones, until she must take refuge, when the brutal South African security forces hunt her. As they begin to close in on her and the man she realises she loves, is it too late?
CONTRIBUTORS: Bernadette Kiewiet
EAN: 9781685624262
COUNTRY:
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 277 g
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Austin Macauley
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
WIDTH: 156 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
Modern and Contemporary romance
Bernadette Mildred Kiewiet (nee Nyman) was born in Claremont, Cape Town ,14 June 1961. She matriculated at Mount View High School, and obtained both Creative Writing- and Copyeditor/Proofreading online certificate courses at UCT-Getsmarter. She is an associate member of the Professional Editors’ Guild and completed a mentorship in fiction with John-David Linnegar (author and training facilitator). She has been chosen to feature as a writer in their upcoming December 2023, quarterly PEG-Board. Her short story ‘The Crash’ was published in the ‘Write My City Short Story Anthology’ 2019. This novel, Life’s Soiled Red Earth, published by Austen Macauley, 31st March 2023 is her first work. She featured in the publisher’s year-end magazine. At her home in Kuils River, Cape Town, she juggles her writing with household duties, yoga, and gardening. She is currently busy with the sequel of her current book ‘Beyond Bitter Waters’ which many readers asked for, and is also finalising an anthology of short stories.
