JUST DESSERT, DEAR

Fiction 270 pages

- May 2010

THE HIDDEN LIFE OF HANNA WHY

Fiction (Young Adult Novel) 168 pages

Tafelberg (SA) - May 15, 2007

Won the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature
On the Exclusive Books Children’s Top Ten
Chosen by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) as Afrikaans Honour Book for the year 2004

Lively story of a girl who rebels against her arty, eccentric mother and her unusual extended family by trying to be a Plain Jane, finding escape through her active imagination. Funny, compassionate, immensely readable.

TIME OUT

Fiction (Novel) 344 pages

Tafelberg (SA) - August 29, 2006

Hester, an ardent Francophile, has always wanted to live in France, so it’s a dream come true when her architect husband inherits some money and they can buy an old house in a Provencal village. But their planned Year in Provence becomes a year of grief, fractured by the sudden and violent death of a child, and there is much more than just the ruin of a house to restore… Surrounded by rubble, cocooned in her grief, Hester dreams vividly of her lost daughter, and becomes obsessed with the news story of an African immigrant mother in jail for killing her own child. She writes imaginary letters to Myriam in her prison cell, though she cannot reach out to her own bewildered husband, and cannot talk to her son, as he struggles to adapt to a foreign world, and his own complex feelings of guilt about his little sister’s death.