Synopses & Reviews
This new novel is set in township life in the 1940s, its joys and sorrows, freedoms and restrictions, ebullience and disenchantments. It tells of a young woman mysteriously orphaned but with a hidden sense of her own freedom and independence. Her struggle is manifested in her happiness with an older man on the one hand, and on the other, the attractiveness of other experiences. But the closely woven fabric of township life has a tight mesh, and reality is hard.