(I just finished My Dark Vanessa and wow – just wow). I have been stocking up on ebooks and more recently, placing orders for the paperbacks I just have to own. If you, like me, would rather stay inside and nest underneath a fort of fluffy blankets, it helps to be entertained. En tog is hulle stories - deur Aunt CC - inmekaar geweef.ĭie boek is waarskynlik gemik op jong volwassenes (so 14 jaar en ouer) maar sal net soveel geniet word deur volwassenes wat nog goed kan onthou hoe dit was.It’s winter and it’s cold and there’s a pandemic raging. Die skrywer het uitstekend daarin geslaag: Jenna is ‘n tipiese moderne tiener Margaret ‘n naïewe wysneus.
Dis ‘n kuns om ‘n verhaal uit twee oogpunte te vertel - veral as die 2 vertellers se ouderdomme en agtergronde so drasties verskil. Vir Aunt CC is dit te laat om die verlede ongedaan te maak - maar Jenna het nog ‘n kans: as sy bereid is om te leer uit die geskiedenis.Įk het die boek baie geniet. Haar dilemma in die huidige word op die ou end direk beïnvloed deur Aunt CC se geskiedenis beide het berou oor keuses wat hulle gemaak het.
Soos wat haar storie egter ontvou, begin die leser tog empatie vir haar ontwikkel. Jenna is aanvanklik nie ‘n karakter wat deernis wek nie sy is arrogant en leuenagtig. Sy ontmoet haar ma se Aunt CC - wat deel uitmaak van Margaret se verhaal. Haar verhaal word afwisselend vertel met dié van Jenna 15 jaar oud, tiener in die 21ste eeu.
Liliesleaf, Rivonia, aanhoudings sonder verhoor, Nelson Mandela. She worked as a journalist for fifteen years and was the political correspondent at the Sunday Times of South Africa covering the first democratic elections. She was born in Boksburg and grew up in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Edyth Bulbring is an award-winning author of nine Young Adult novels: The Summer of Toffie and Grummer which was shortlisted for the English Academy's 2010 Percy FitzPatrick prize for Youth Literature (Oxford University Press, February 2008) Cornelia Button and the Globe of Gamagion (Jacana, April 2008) The Club (Jonathan Ball Publishers, September 2008) Pops and The Nearly Dead (Penguin, March 2010) Melly, Mrs Ho and Me (Penguin, September 2010) Melly, Fatty and Me which was awarded the English Academy's 2012 Percy FitzPatrick prize for Youth Literature (Penguin, September 2011) The Mark which was awarded the English Academy's 2016 Percy FitzPatrick Prize for Youth Literature (Tafelberg September 2014) and Snitch which won the 2017 M.E.R Prize for best Afrikaans or English youth novel (Tafelberg, May 2016).
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