This strange book, purportedly a novel but surely a thinly disguised memoir is set in 1950s South Africa. Told through the eyes of a young, white girl growing up at a time when racial laws are being tightened, it is not only a chronicle of the often hilarious pains and pleasures of childhood, adolescence and early adulthood but provides an inside view of the attitudes and politics which led to the insidious growth of apartheid.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 27 December 2004 ) |
