In a Cape Town where water is rationed and has to be collected from trucks each day, with the consequences of apartheid and the ending of it still evident, Deidre lives from day to day in squalor - largely created by herself - borrowing, persuading, cadging her way from the water trucks to the bar, testing the tolerance and pity of everyone she knows. Then she is contacted by the police, and taken by a respectful constable to the house where she grew up and where she lost her leg in a shattering explosion while still young.
Faced with what is found there, she has to accept the truth of her past, and of her older brother, her parents' golden boy. Then she must confront herself and her responsibility, and what it truly is to be a victim.
| ISBN: | 9781739104788 |
| Publication date: | 3rd April 2025 |
| Author: | Karen Jennings |
| Publisher: | Holland House Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 180 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
In a Cape Town where water is rationed and has to be collected from trucks each day, with the consequences of apartheid and the ending of it still evident, Deidre lives from day to day in squalor - largely created by herself - borrowing, persuading, cadging her way from the water trucks to the bar, testing the tolerance and pity of everyone she knows. Then she is contacted by the police, and taken by a respectful constable to the house where she grew up and where she lost her leg in a shattering explosion while still young.
Crooked Seeds features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Crooked Seeds was written by Karen Jennings and published by Holland House Books
Crooked Seeds has 180 pages
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