Gem Squash - Tokoloshe - Poche

When the rain stops, Faith's father takes to the road as a travelling salesman. Faith and her mother, Bella, left on their drought-stricken farm in the Northern Transvaal, keenly await his weekend visits, until one day he stops coming and Bella's health declines. Fifteen years later Faith is on the verge of a breakdown and has not spoken to her mother in a decade. When Bella dies, incarcerated in the Sterkfontein asylum for the criminally insane, Faith inherits the farm... and must return to confront the dark mysteries of the past. In prose as lithe and imaginative as that of Alexandra Fuller, Rachel Zadok examines the story of a young girl growing up during the height of apartheid unrest in South Africa. This powerful debut tells a richly compelling, emotionally resonant tale of courage set against the backdrop of a chaotically divided, beautiful country.