The opening of the book is focused on another death—a young woman named Keira who has tumbled to her death from the roof of the Hamdean house. The prose and innuendo and the strong historical backbone make this a book worthy of challenging future South African generations of English scholars as a set work. I wonder if every novel now has a husband and wife who have each fantasized at or dropped their clothes for someone else in an attempt to create an artistic relationship. A Sharp Shades book is 64 pages, with illustrations and a larger font than that of the Shades series.

Matias along with his wife Emily, son Crispin, cousin Victor and Benedict their adopted son who was being sponsored by English family. Her dad's not even putting up a fight, which makes Scarlet even more convinced her parents are deeply disappointing people.It ought to be read by anyone interested in the history of prisons, crime, and the 'criminal classes'. Ultimately, of course, what happened cannot be explained—never do Catherine and Michael feel they’ve arrived at recovery. And yet, the novel is framed as a mystery, sets up a question, at the beginning of the book, that I felt was never really answered. This intense novel is an engrossing meditation on how grief renders us aching for connection and meaning.

A very well told story of love, life and loss; it best chronicles the history in a land of my grandfathers, as it is set where my grandparents lived.My house has been in Living Etc, HeartHome and featured in The Wall Street Journal and Corriere della Sera. This series offers fast-paced, shorter novels (just 64 pages each) for older readers who may find longer books too daunting but who still want the excitement of a great story told with pace and style.