Soetwater: Life in the Klein Karoo Lionel’s gentle

Lionel’s gentle

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'Writing poetry

Your novel gives a convincing sense of a distant time and place and the privileged life of its refined but slightly maverick leading lady as well as the numerous people in her social and family ambit

She joined Lionel Abrahams’ writing group and under his mentorship had a number of short stories and humour pieces published

Soetwater: Life in the Klein Karoo Lionel’s gentleThese stories about life in a small Karoo town sparkle with humour and delight. Set in the mid to late 1940s, a time when the deprivation and suffering caused by the Second World War were beginning to lift, and people were starting to look to a more hopeful future, they draw on the rich tradition of South African storytelling in the Pauline Smith and Herman Charles Bosman vein, and will captivate readers with their optimism and insight. Stan Schoeman